In detail description about the impacts of EU firearms directive to Finnish firearms legislation including the impacts to different interest groups
Impact Assessment – Delivered!
Firearms United sent letter with impact assessment for the firearms directive to all MEPs: http://bit.ly/2fzOESO
FIREARMS UNITED agrees with Commissioner King’s aim – but not with his way!
Tyvärr är denna artikel enbart tillgänglig på Amerikansk Engelska, Tyska och Finska. For the sake of viewer convenience, the content is shown below in this site default language. You may click one of the links to switch the site language to another available language. King wants an agreement that would restrict the circulation of fully automatic and converted semi-automatic weapons in … Read More
Commissioner’s Scandalous Speech led to Rejection by MEPs
Commissioner Elżbieta Bieńkowska ( European Commission ) claimed 100.000 deaths in ten years by legally-held firearms and said law abiding citizens should not own semi-automatic firearms at all. Snippets of Commissioner’s speech: I think that first we have to limit the access to automatic and semi-automatic firearms. Such assault weapons are not necessary for sport shooting. Hunters in some member states are … 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