Malta Firearms Conference – Sending the Message!

The Conference organized by FESAC, AACTS, AMACS and Firearms United in Malta has attracted media attention – in addition to hall full of firearms enthusiasts and foreign guests from many organizations in Europe! Nothing in the directive is yet settled, and even the trilogue is still formally ongoing before the parliament approves the current “compromise”. Malta is in key position, … Read More

FIREARMS UNITED’s Answers to EU

We list all interesting informations and arguments against the EU gunban and stricter national gun laws. Feel free to read our reports and answers and use the arguments when you write to or call your politician or talk to a journalist.

#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

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

How to decrease firearms-related death?

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Findings of the study which wants to combat illicit trafficking and to decrease firearms-related deaths and intimidation of victims: Most, if not all, of the 10.000 firearms-related death will occur as a result of the possession of illicit weapons. (page 30)

Long-Term Historical Trends in Violent Crime

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Manuel Eisner is a Professor of Comparative and Developmental Criminology and Deputy Director of the University of Cambridge Institute of Criminology. He studied the history of crime from the thirteenth century until the end of the twentieth. This is a very short summary about his extraordinary work, which is published by the Department of Sociology at the University of Calgary. Historical … Read More