Posted on 12/23/2015 11:16:42 AM PST by Olog-hai
German gun club lobbyists were invited to the German Interior Ministry (BMI) last week to discuss something that has been bothering them for a while - the European Commission's proposed plans to tighten Europe's gun laws, which were suddenly revived from legislative stagnation in the wake of the "Islamic State" attacks in Paris in November.
By all accounts, the visit was a success. "The proposal contains things that the BMI said would be difficult for them, and where changes would be called for," said Joachim Streitberger, head of Germany's association of shooting ranges (BVS), after he emerged from the meeting. "After this conversation, I do not expect the draft to come into force in the present form." ...
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Yes, the problem with terrorists getting guns to murder people is because it is to easy for law abiding citizens to get them.
This will make the serfs easier to kill by ISIS
Governments are either stupid or don't care, there doesn't seem to be any middle ground.
Their glider clubs went on to become the Luftwaffe.
Hopefully these shooting clubs will go on to become 21st century versions of the early 19th century Freikorps.
Govts are (rightly) afraid of armed honest citizens. It’s not a long step from shooting a burglar to another sort of criminal..... the average bureaucrat or elected official.
Thomas Jefferson, Founding Father
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