What Really Happened in the IMCO Vote?

The IMCO has now now voted for the opinion of the European parliament. The preliminary results are in, but what really happened and how does that impact me as a hunter/sportshooter/reservist/gun collector/recreational shooter?

Open Letter to MEP Marlene Mizzi: We ask for trust and respect

Dear Mrs. Mizzi, I read your circular email which repeatedly asks presents a question: What you need it for? My name is David Karasek, a spokesman of Czech firearms rights association, and I am answering your question from an Eastern Europe perspective. To be honest, your reply angered me at first, but then I thought about it more deeply and … Read More

Fighting Fund sent a team to Brussels

FIREARMS UNITED’s Fighting Fund enabled us to send a team of members and independent experts to Brussels. The team arrived on Monday to attend important meetings prior to and during the IMCO vote of today. We thank our donors.

Updates of Fighting Fund and IMCO

Our special thank goes today to Mikael from Sweden Mikael invented chamberflags and sold them for 150 SEK (15€) and spent 100 SEK (10€) of each sale to our fighting fund. He distributes them only on matches, not online. But he offers design and contacts for all who want to copy this action – as long as 2/3 is donated … Read More

Dangerous Compromises in IMCO?

Reliable sources have warned us that several important amendments from the original 847 proposed by IMCO MEPs are likely to end up in badly-drafted Compromise Amendments. It would appear that the positive stand originally taken by EPP, ECR and ALDE has been watered down to garner the support of S&D and the Greens as well as to align the final … Read More

MEP Christofer Fjellner: no impact assessement = rejection

Conservative MEP Christofer Fjellner from Sweden found the right words. Watch! Snippets of his speech: Instead of getting to the real problem with illegal guns all of the proposal hits the legal guns and has no impact on terrorists or criminals at all. 5-years-licenses, medical exams, hindering distance trade and banning certain semi-automatics won’t stop terrorists but hit hard the … Read More

MEP Jussi Halla-aho: Reject whole proposal!

The next MEP – after Christofer Fjellner (SE) – rejects the proposal: Jussi Halla-aho (FI) Snippets of his speech: The large number of ammendments is encouraging as many of them address the most excessive and disproportional details in the proposal. The rapporteur has also generally done a good job. We should reject not only the proposed and unjustified ban on semi-automatic … 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

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