#EUgunban: FACE’s press release attacks the Dutch Presidency

Article by Pierangelo Tendas (All4Shooters.com) 06/04/2016 – The latest documents on the planned EU gun ban show the Dutch Presidency’s intent to impose restrictions on much more than «just» modern sporting rifles and magazines: FACE attacks with a press release outlining the danger of such proposals! What follows is FACE‘s latest official press release concerning the latest developments on the planned … Read More

TIME FOR ACTION AGAIN!

Whilst we could celebrate a small victory in the European Parliament, governmental staff work behind the curtains of GENVAL and COUNCIL for more restrictions and bans. Our Governments, Ministries and Member of Parliament need to know what is going on in GENVAL and at the COUNCIL. They are responsible for its outcome: ban something due to lies or ban nothing … Read More

#EUgunban: COM has no facts, but misuses massacres and lies

When MEP Beatrix von Storch asked the European Commission (COM) to prove the “dangerousness” of legally-held firearms and especially of category B firearms Commissioner Elżbieta Bieńkowska did not answer her question at all. She only gave examples and assumptions and misused massacres as an argument for bans. Questions by Beatrix von Storch (MEP) from January 2016: How many of the annual 1 … Read More

FACE: Commissioner Bieńkowska’s 100.000 deaths unfounded

Commissioner Bieńkowska’s Scandalous Speech Mrs Elżbieta Bieńkowska ( European Commission ) claimed 100.000 deaths in ten years by legally-held firearms. FACE’s Press Release «FACE President Michl Ebner commented: “Commissioner Bieńkowska’s unfounded statement that 100,000 citizens were “murdered” by legal firearms does not contribute to the democratic debate on the revision of the Firearms Directive. The European Commission is adopting an … Read More

MEP Richard Sulik: Withdraw the directive!

  Snippets of MEP Richard Sulik’s speech The European Commission is trying to restrict people’s personal freedoms. No terrorist is going to get a weapon at a normal dealer. I thank the rapporteur for her hard work to remove the nonsense from the proposal. Ms Bieńkowska suprised me yesterday, when she said, that we don’t need so many weapons. Surely citizen’s … Read More

FIREARMS UNITED’s Reasons for Rejecting Proposal

FIREARMS UNITED is against the whole «Proposal of the European Parliament and Council amending Council Directive 91/477/EEC on control of the acquisition and possession of weapons (Firearms Directive)» The reasons: no impact assessment; not in accordance with REFIT; useless rules that do not solve any problem; useless rules which only affect legal gunowners while doing nothing about illegal guns; useless … Read More

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»: 

#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

EU gun ban: GENVAL and EC insist, Firearms United calls to action

Article by Pierangelo Tendas (All4Shooters.com) As the European Commission and GENVAL keep up the pressure in support of the EU gun ban, Firearms United calls all European gun owners to action Whoever thought that the battle for the defense of our rights against the gun grab attempts of the European Commission and other EU institutions would be over − even just … Read More