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

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/

#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

#Gunban: Who wants to ban our firearms?

Strings lead to Geneva It would appear that the last insidious attempt to disarm citizens comes from the EU. However, that is only a partial truth. The EU, or the EC, diligently follows « a recommendation of independent experts », where one hundred percent of these « independent experts » originate from two very reputable non-profit organizations that are so fanatic in their belief … Read More

EU gun ban: we’re still in danger

Source: All4Shooters.com

Article by Pierangelo Tendas (All4Shooters.com) News come from Brussels, and they aren’t that good at all: it’s time to mobilize again! The week didn’t start with good news regarding our stuggle against the planned EU’s totalitarian gun ban. The draft report from IMCO President, MEP Vicky Ford, is rumored to be on the edge of being shot down for being « too … 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