New Amendments of IMCO published

The Committee on the Internal Market and Consumer Protection (IMCO) published 847 amendments for the EU Firearms Directive. Download PDF : 847_Amendments by IMCO  (Update on 15-05-2016) We thought, 250 amendments at the LIBE committee were much, but now we see up to 800! Funny phenomenon: Every time we see something and think “Hey, that is total bullshit”, it came from Durand (French … Read More

FIREARMS UNITED’s Answer to the European Commission

FIREARMS UNITED commented and critized the 3 studies and arguments of the European Commission Missing Impact Assessement 10.000 homicides Risk of legal ownership 500 000 “stolen” firearms Deactivated firearms Conversions of semi-automatic firearms Read our facts for above “arguments”: Lots of citizens who wrote to Juncker or the DG Grow recieved emails with the following contents. As you know, in … Read More

DON’T LET IT HAPPEN!

“Don’t let it happen! It depends on you!” was the final warning of George Orwell, author of “1984”, which was not meant as a manual. George Orwell (25 June 1903 – 21 January 1950)  must have been a prophet – as lots of the things he wrote 1948 in his novel Nineteen Eighty-Four became reality, same is valid for his novel Animal Farm. Many … Read More

What is FIREARMS UNITED’s goal?

We want to inform people and mainstream that legal gun ownership is not a threat, but a benefit for our security. We want that worldwide polls will have the same outcome as in the US. In the US the public opinion on legal gun ownership shifted within 15 years. We need to shift worldwide opinion in less than 5 years. … Read More

#EUgunban: finally a victory at LIBE

Article by Pierangelo Tendas (All4Shooters.com) Good news come from the EU as the vote at the LIBE Committee of the European Parliament turns out positively for law-abiding gun owners In the late evening of May 9th, 2016, the Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs committee (LIBE) of the European Parliament held an electronic vote session on the amendments to the committee’s draft opinion … Read More

FIREARMS UNITED 2.0

Finally we moved to WordPress and installed a “Member Space“. We recommend to sign in (with nick and your country) as a member. We will try to publish as much news as possible from Facebook and other sources to our new website. You can comment our pages and we will soon be able to send newsletters. http://firearms-united.com/members/

How the European Council works on gun bans

As you might be aware, the European Parliament is not the only EU institution where the fate of legitimate firearm owners is being decided in the wake of the unelected and increasingly autocratic EU Commission’s unjustified attack against our well-regulated community. The other is the European Council, currently presided by the Netherlands, where the governments of all Member States are … Read More

#EESC – EU body hates private ownership

To protect public from criminals, legal firearms owners must be screwed as much as possible, says EESC Well, not exactly, but that’s a short summary of European Economic and Social Committee. Not only the Commission stupid and draconic proposal is hailed as “significant improvement”, but the EESC urges to go further:

#Call-To-Action in UK

Eleven associations call citizens of UK to contact their MEPs and provide an online tool which makes this very easy. The European Commission is pressing for changes to the Firearms Directive, they say these are to combat terrorism and organised crime but FACE UK is concerned that many of their proposals would harm legitimate shooting in the UK. http://e-activist.com/ea-action/action?ea.client.id=1979&ea.campaign.id=47315

#GREENS : hate private gun ownership

GREEN RAPPORTEUR IGNORES OTHER OPINIONS Bodil Valero is rapporteur for LIBE and wrote a draft for the proposal which is even stricter than the original, e.g. a high capicity ban for magazines. Other Members of the European Parliament (MEP) have complained the fact that Valero has IGNORED all the opinions, except her own even though it is obvious that her … Read More