Tomasz W. Stępień: In Firearms United we expect the EU to go hard after legal gun owners in 2020

If existing national legislation is more restrictive than the proposed EU gun ban, you won't find political opposition to the ban coming from those countries. The opposition, such as it is, is centered on the few countries that are currently less restrictive than the proposed ban. Which means, what? Czech Republic, Finland, Switzerland? (Switzerland is not a member of the EU although it is a member of the Schengen Area.) This doesn't leave much of a base of opposition.

Switzerland is going to the ballots in May over this. Basically, people have to decide if to cave in to the EU’s draconian restrictions in matters of private firearms ownership - or to tell the EU “go and stuff yourselves”.

The Government doesn’t want to antagonize the EU, and wants to keep the various bilateral accords... But the Swiss citizens have shown before that they don’t really care what the Government thinks, when it goes against what they really feel. And, unlike in the vast majority of other countries, in Switzerland the people have the last say: if the majority of the people and of the Cantons cast a vote for or against something, the Government has to comply.

Let’s see what happens...

Maybe the Czech, the Swiss and the Finns should start their own Union. Methink that people in several countries will want to join...

I really like this statement "We do not accept collective responsibility for actions of madmen and terrorists".

Snejdarek said:

When the EU Gun Ban was drafted, both the Swiss and Finnish government supported it.

Czechs and Poles were the only ones voting against.

Czechs were the only ones fighting it tooth and nail all along.

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The Swiss Government supported an amended version of the EU law, in order to remain within the Schengen Accords.

The people initiated a referendum against the application of the EU firearms law. 125,000 signatures were collected (50,000 were needed to call for a referendum).

The largest political party in Switzerland supports the referendum.

Basically, the question goes far deeper than just firearms: it’s “Do you really want to be a subject of the EU, and bend over backwards to their demands, no matter how intrusive they are, or are you ready to say “Enough of that nonsense, let’s be independent”.

I’ve left the place too many years ago, so I can’t really tell which way it will go. But independence and firearms are core values in Switzerland, and the Government could be in for an unpleasant surprise...