{"id":619,"date":"2016-05-13T19:22:59","date_gmt":"2016-05-13T17:22:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/firearms-united.com\/?p=619"},"modified":"2016-05-16T13:24:15","modified_gmt":"2016-05-16T11:24:15","slug":"vote-committee-due-take-place-end-june","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.firearms-united.com\/cz\/vote-committee-due-take-place-end-june\/","title":{"rendered":"New Amendments of IMCO published"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Committee on the Internal Market and Consumer Protection\u00a0(IMCO) published 847\u00a0amendments for the EU Firearms Directive.<\/h2>\n

Download PDF : 847_Amendments by IMCO<\/a>\u00a0 (Update on 15-05-2016)<\/h3>\n

We thought, 250\u00a0amendments at the LIBE committee were much, but now we see up to 800!<\/p>\n

Funny phenomenon: Every time we see something and think “Hey, that is total bullshit”, it came from Durand (French Green). Every time we see something that makes a bit of sense the names above are Ford (rapporteur ) and Corazza Bildt (Sweden).<\/p>\n

It will take some days until you can read them in your national language.<\/p>\n

These amendments will be voted for and their final outcome will be presented to the European Parliament.\u00a0Here a short history what happened in the past at IMCO: Link<\/a><\/p>\n

Let’s hope that Durand’s opinion will be in the end of June crashed as Gomes’ at the LIBE Committee<\/a>\u00a0in May.<\/p>\n

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There the \u00a0EPP, ECR and ALDE groups\u00a0led\u00a0common sense and sanity to victory in their vote, throwing out of the window most, if not all, of the largely anti-gun proposals of the European Commission and of the social-democrat, left and green groups.<\/p>\n

But for this we need to persuade the Members of Parliament, especially of the S&D fraction, to reject the anti-gun amendments.<\/h2>\n

You can find all IMCO members here:\u00a0http:\/\/www.europarl.europa.eu\/committees\/en\/imco\/members.html<\/a><\/p>\n

Or sorted by fraction:\u00a0Search for Committees<\/strong> and Internal Market and Consumer Protection<\/strong> and your country or the Fraction<\/strong> :\u00a0http:\/\/www.europarl.europa.eu\/meps\/de\/search.html?<\/a><\/p>\n

In any case: be polite.<\/h3>\n

The Member of IMCO and LIBE are very engaged to find rational solutions for this proposal. If we cannot persuade them to rejects the proposal (it never happened before), they are the ones who can at least delete the most BS. But they won’t do it if you write in aggressive ways.<\/p>\n

You can use our answers to IMCO <\/a>and to the Commission\u00a0<\/a>for arguments. But keep it short and simple.<\/p>\n

FIREARMS UNITED\u2019s Answer to IMCO\u2019s Draft<\/a><\/h3>\n

FIREARMS UNITED\u2019s Answer to the European Commission<\/a><\/h3>\n

Download doc-files for Amendments:<\/p>\n