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A soaring crime rate linked to the influx of 190,000 unemployed migrants has Swedes purchasing firearms at record rates.

In what was once a safe welfare state where people did not even lock their doors, Sweden now has nearly 2 million licensed guns owned by 576,733 people. There are also said to be a large number of unlicensed weapons as well.

“There is also a high demand for alarm systems right now,” a salesman at a security company said in an interview with Gatestone.

“It is largely due to the turbulence we are seeing around the country at the moment. The police will not come anymore.”

Since Sweden’s parliament decided the country should be multicultural in 1975, crime rates have increased by more than 300 percent. Rapes have increased by 1,472 percent.

To be eligible for a gun permit in Sweden, residents must be at least 18-years-old; law-abiding; well-behaved, and have a hunting license or be a member of an approved shooting club.

In 2014, 11,000 people received a hunting license, a 10 percent increase from 2013. One out of five was a woman.

The influx of unemployed migrants this year alone is the equivalent of two percent of Sweden’s population.

Prime Minister Stefan Lofven said Sweden “should have the option of relocating people applying for asylum in Sweden to other EU countries. Our ability, too, has a limit. We are facing a paradigm shift.”

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