The Disarmament Continues

Apparently European governments can't even trust their own agents with firearms.

Belgium's secret service has confiscated guns from its agents following a near miss last year.

Members of the Surete de l'Etat were ordered to disarm after news emerged that an agent only narrowly escaped injury when another opened fire.

Weapons will be issued only if specifically needed, the justice ministry told the BBC News website.

Separately, the work of the state security body may change if a ban on phone tapping is lifted.

What a joke. I love Europe, but they're every bit as fallible and incompetent as they paint Americans as being, if not moreso.