barnbwt
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I'm more surprised Estonia & Finland are on board; I thought Finland was the one that deputized all citizens as militiamen exempted from the rules.
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"Look, we don't actually care whether you guys keep your guns or not, so long as you are loyal to the EU as opposed to your native country" --the entire point of a local militia is to not be taking orders from some far off governing bureau...Just like in America after the Revolution, within a generation the local militia will be disbanded & rolled into a formal federal military force, and their domestic function replaced by high-powered federal law enforcement (i.e. gendararmie or constabulary). This proposal is dangerous bait for short sighted gun owners & politicians (or anyone who would have these militia directed against them, for that matter). At best, this scheme ends up with one nation's militia used to put down another state's rebellion (that's how it worked in the US for a time, anyway). Something that, absent the EU legitimizing it, would be rightly seen as armed foreign aggression.Militia
As Finns, Estonians and Swiss pushed exemption for militia into the EU Gun Ban, the Minister of Defense has now proposed his idea of "Ministry of Interior Militia". Any gun owner would be able to simply sign in and in the eyes of the law covered as exempted from the EU Gun Ban.
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