Guns in France and the NYT

For John, BLUF:  We are not the only nation with gun rights.  Nothing to see here; just move along.

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Over at ¡No Pasáran! the Blogger is a little cranky at The New York Times.  The paper reports on a jewel theft in Nice in which one of the perps, after holding the jeweler at gun point and physically abusing him, gets shot.  The intrepid blogger thinks the paper is a too sympathetic to the thief and insufficiently sympathetic to the victim of the thief.  The assumption is that it is all about the spin of The New York Times, which is assumed to be pro-gun control.

The question is, in such an advanced, and centralized, nation as France, where did the law abiding jeweler get a gun?  And, not asked, where did the jewel thief get his gun?  Germany?  Italy?  Spain?  The United States?

By the way, in France, there is no ban on "assault weapons", per Wikipedia.

On a final note, I feel sorry for the jewel thief, his having been shot.  On the other hand, he has no right to physically abuse someone and no right to steal with material possessions.  Perhaps not understanding the consequences of his action (the brain is not fully developed until about age 22) he did things that others had previously told him were wrong.  Things like this sometimes raise a question about the 26th Amendment.

Regards  —  Cliff