Posted on 03/21/2016 10:04:53 PM PDT by Olog-hai
The European Commission wants to make purchasing firearms in the EU more difficult and has cited the Paris attacks as the main contributing factor. However, Parliament has voiced its concerns about how effective its proposal will be. EurActiv Germany reports.
A general ban on semi-automatic weapons, strong regulation of blank-firing guns, stricter rules for museums and collectors, and a closer exchange of information between security authorities are some of the proposals contained in a new package of measures drawn up by the Commission last November and which is currently making its way through the gauntlet that is the European Parliament.
But many MEPs think that the draft is too ambitious and that the interests of marksmen and museums are put at risk by it.
On Tuesday (15 March), the Parliament’s internal market committee met to discuss the proposal and listened to external experts, with the draft being met with little enthusiasm by the delegates, who believed that the Commission’s official objective of combating terrorists and criminals would not be met.
“This proposal is not a response to the terrorist acts,” criticized Othmar Karas (EPP). Instead, the draft’s scrutineers felt that it merely restricted the legal weapons market more, instead of taking the black market to task. “It creates a lot of uncertainty among licensed gun owners,” Karas added. …
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They’re using the same tired excuses there as they do here.
Note to self: thank God for not making me a European.
Interesting that even the European politicians seem largely skeptical of this and rightly see it as a bait and switch - allegedly fighting terrorism while it really just restricts law-abiding people.
When you go to a Greek restaurant in Germany....there on the table will be this restaurant-owned bottle of olive oil. They buy the stuff in 5-gallon-like containers and dispense it into these nice-looking glass containers. It’s been that way forever.
The EU got into some tizzy about eighteen months ago. They wanted to ban the practice of pouring olive oil from one container to another....so they wanted to impose a mandatory bottle law. Whatever got put onto the table....had to be in an original container from the company...NOT the restaurant-owned container.
Folks went ballistic when this got discussed. The restaurants didn’t want it. Customers didn’t want it. In fact, the EU had a problem....they couldn’t really discuss this without explaining who was pushing this to occur. So they eventually reached a point where they dropped the whole subject. It never went anywhere.
Some benefits of including some former East Block countries in the EU.
Kinda sounds like they need to outlaw bombs first.
duh
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