Posted on 04/08/2018 7:18:09 PM PDT by Olog-hai
A new platform composed of left-wing politicians, police officers and psychiatrists is pushing for Switzerland to follow the European Union in tightening controls on guns.
Representatives of the Social Democratic Party (SP), the Swiss police officers association VSPB/FSFP and the Swiss federation of psychiatrists and psychotherapists FMPP joined forces on Thursday ahead of a debate on the issue in parliament, the Tribune de Genève reported.
The EU parliament approved a revised gun law last year designed to close security loopholes and introduce tighter controls on blank-firing and inadequately deactivated weapons like those used in the Paris terror attacks.
On March 2nd, the Federal Council issued a message on a “pragmatic implementation” of the EU legislation in Switzerland in response to the terror attacks in Europe. It said the focus was on limiting access to semi-automatic weapons with a large magazine capacity and improving the exchange of information in the Schengen area that includes Switzerland. …
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So what? That does not give the EU any right to push its dictates on that country. Switzerland needs its RKBA more than ever in the face of the EUSSR attempting to override its sovereign laws.
///The EU parliament approved a revised gun law last year designed to close security loopholes and introduce tighter controls ///
Fortunately for Switzerland, it is NOT a member of the EU!
Allerdings würde man auf deutsch eher von "Feuerwaffenkriminalität" sprechen.
Regards,
Don’t ask me why, but “Beiherhund” causes the “fatal error”. I was playing around on Google Translate to see which words it could actually translate. I broke up “Flipperwaldt” into two words and Google Translate spat out “pinball machine” (which is actually Flipperautomat).
of course they do- they don’t want their citizens to be able o defend themselves against the invading islamic terrorists
Don’t worry. Whatever restrictions the Swiss parliament decides there will be a referendum. I do not think the Swiss people will give up their right to bear arms.
In search of fix of a non existent problem, that’s Euroweenies for you.
I don’t think so either. Some Swiss get a bit lefty at times but in general they seem to actually consider both sides before voting.
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