Posted on 01/31/2017 2:20:22 PM PST by richardb72
Strict new European gun-control regulations will take another step on Thursday when a committee of the European Parliament votes on a set of measures. The Parliament and the European Commission already have agreed to the proposal in principle. Prompted by terrorist attacks in Paris and Copenhagen, these regulations would prohibit the civilian use of most semiautomatic firearms. As is typical of such laws, however, they will do nothing to prevent the kind of attacks being used to justify them.
The proposed Firearms Directive would, among other things, ban various semiautomatic guns and magazines greater than 10 or 20 rounds, depending on the length of the gun. The goal appears to be to ban semiautomatic guns that can “easily be converted” to automatic weapons.
But the directive completely misunderstands how guns work. Semiautomatic guns can’t be easily converted into machine guns. The firing mechanisms are different.
Semiautomatic weapons fire only one bullet with each pull of the trigger and then reload themselves, making them good for self-defense. With a single-shot rifle that requires the user to manually reload, you could be in trouble if you miss your first shot or are faced by multiple attackers.
High-capacity magazines, regardless of any ban, can be made with very simple tools or mass-produced with 3-D printers. Another way around the ban would be to use multiple guns, which killers in terror attacks often do.
None of these bans would hinder a determined terrorist. . . .
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Making Europe safe for jihad.
We wouldn’t want to interfere with their religious obligation to kill infidels............/s
The greatest threat to Europeans is not the Muzz, but the European Union itself.
Why not just arm the populace?
Works for Switzerland and America.
Brussels is wrong on EVERYTHING.
The EUnuchs in Brussels fear a restive populace more than muzzies.
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