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Thieves in Paraguay have stolen FORTY TWO tough rifles from the police armoury.
During an inspection, officers discovered that the FN FAL combat rifles have been replaced with wooden and plastic replicas.
The inspection were ordered after the rifles started appearing a year in the past on the black market, the place they can fetch as much as $10,000 (£7,785).
The rifles have been placed into storage but have been still in operating order.
Some of them are concept to have ended up in Argentina while others are believed to have been smuggled to Brazil.
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They have been taken to the armoury in the town of Capiatá as the police force was once replacing them with more recent models.
AL riflesWhen the rifles first started showing at the black marketplace, the army ordered an investigation. They honed in at the police armoury and a search discovered the toy rifles.
The police officer responsible of the armoury has been replaced but no arrests have so far been made.
