Posted on 05/28/2019 7:07:01 AM PDT by rktman
The Swiss government has been more supportive of citizens owning guns than just about anywhere else.
But they voted in a referendum over the weekend for more restrictions, and an analyst explains it was under extreme pressure from the European Union.
EU officials told “gun-friendly nations – the Czech Republic and Switzerland” – to make changes in their laws or lose the benefits of easy cross-border access.
“In essence, the EU provided a solution in search of a problem,” wrote Bill Wirtz of Young Voices Advocates at the Foundation for Economic Education. “And somehow, they got people to agree with it.”
He said “gun rights activists lobbied against tighter rules and pushed the vote in an attempt to oppose new agreements between Switzerland and the European Union.”
But the EU was dictating the terms, putting more restrictions on gun owners and centralizing surveillance.
He explained the background: “After the 2015 terrorist attacks in France, the European Commission drafted a reform of a law enacted in 1991. A final, watered-down version now includes bans on automatic firearms that have been converted into semi-automatics, magazines with a capacity of more than 21 rounds in the case of short firearms and more than 11 rounds for rifles, personal defense weapons (PDWs), and even stage and re-enactment guns in some cases.”
There’s also a provision for surveillance and the exchange of information between member states.
(Excerpt) Read more at wnd.com ...
so even if you’re not in the EU, the EU can still tell you what to do...awesome
The Fourth Reich accomplishes what the Third dared not try.
Apparently they write the immigration rules and bully anyone that doesn’t comply. Sort of like a union shop in a right to work state and you don’t ‘want’ to join the union.
It’s been someone’s goal to file the point off the Swiss spear.
The EU is Hitler’s wet dream. Complete with Jew-hatred.
And this is what it looks like when sovereign nations surrender their power to a collective via treaty.
So...if the Swiss had voted the gun measure down, Brussels would simply direct nations contiguous to Switzerland to lock down all border crossings, require passports, search vehicles, impose tariffs, the whole “Your papers, please” drill.
Sucks to be landlocked and subject to EU quarantine.
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