Legal Restrictions: help the European hunters and shooters

On the morning of 7th January 2015 Terrorists attacked Charlie Hebdo, with fully automatic, unregistered and illegal firearms.

Since then the EU has been preparing new legislation to ban semi-automatic firearms in the hands of law abiding EU citizens. Despite the fact that these weapons were not used by terrorists and are not even typically used by criminals.

They use unregistred, untraceble black market full auto Kalashnikovs.

The new legislation has been on the back burner since April 2015, only to surface now on 18th of November, barely 5 days after a second attack in Paris.

The victims of this tragedy have not been buried yet, the criminals are still on the loose and the police has not even finished the investigation and yet the EU is announcing measures to prevent something like that from happening again.

Unfortunately nothing in the draft would have prevented these 2 attacks since neither were done with weapons that are now legal and would be banned with this new law. Nothing.

It is not logical and above all it is extremely unfair.
It is unfair to the victims, it is unfair to the law abiding citizens whose hobby and property will be taken away.


Say NO to the draft proposal announced on 18 November 2015
Do not restrict semi-automatic firearms 'because they look like an automatic firearm'


We the Citizens demand that the EU brings focus on the real problems:
- That the external borders of the EU are not protected.
- Our population has groups in it that refuse to allign with our democratic core values and our culture.
- Illegal arms trade is rampant within the EU.
- Criminals and terrorists have easier access to illegal weapons than legal gun owners have access to legal arms.

That is the current situation and this new legislation does NOTHING to adress those problems.
The 18 November IP-15-6110 draft to amend 91/477/EEC is not only populistic in nature, it is also an insult to our civil liberties and to the intelligence of the EU citizens as a whole.

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Signed, with a brief message. Let's hope for the best.

Incidentally, the largest evening paper of Finland just published a special edition yesterday, about large-scale operation of stashing guns after WW2 from Soviet-controlled secret police. Not much has changed, except EU is about to take the role of the soviets of late 1940's.

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Category B7 includes:

1. Clone war weapons and their spin-off provided that they are not suitable for containing the release devices of the original weapon;

2. Semi-automatic weapons that have two or more of the following characteristics:

a) Folding or telescopic butt;

b) Gun grip[1]

c) Presence of two or more optics supports (Piccatinny rail);

d) Bayonet connection or bayonet if fixed;

e) Weapons with length less than 830 mm[2];

3. Weapons with barrel length less than 450 mm[3];

4. Semi-automatic weapons suitable to fire the same ammunition as war weapons which have one or more of th
e characteristics indicated in the above point 2)[4]

[1] It is not considered as gun grip the one obtained from the butt and having a hole for the housing of the thumb (thumbhole);

[2] Length is to be considered with close butt, excluding any flash eliminators.

[3] Barrel length measured without attachments as flash eliminators, mouth brakes, compensators;

[4] Following you will find a non-exhaustive list of the more common calibres suitable for war ammunition: i.e. 5.45 mm x 36; 7.62 mm x 39; 7.62 mm x 54; .223 Remington; .308 Winchester; .30-06

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