{"id":214,"date":"2015-11-16T21:30:28","date_gmt":"2015-11-16T21:30:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/firearms-united.com\/2015\/11\/16\/after-the-attacks-in-france-ec-wants-restrictions-on-licit-access-to-weapons\/"},"modified":"2016-05-06T20:32:43","modified_gmt":"2016-05-06T20:32:43","slug":"after-the-attacks-in-france-ec-wants-restrictions-on-licit-access-to-weapons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.firearms-united.com\/fi\/after-the-attacks-in-france-ec-wants-restrictions-on-licit-access-to-weapons\/","title":{"rendered":"After the attacks in France EC wants restrictions on licit access to weapons"},"content":{"rendered":"

The European Commission DG Home wants to propose a semiautomatic ban for EU individuals, which look similar to military ones. This EC also wants stricter rules for arms control.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Proposals for a new law or amendment to the Directive on firearms will be presented on Wednesday – the author learned from Union source PAP.<\/p>\n

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Initially the amendment was planned for next year, but the European Commission DG Home analyzing over the weekend the possible reactions to the Paris bombings recognized the need to accelerate the project. So Polish Commissioner Elizabeth Bie\u0144kowska in which portfolio is the common market, has been informed about the work in progress:<\/p>\n

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Individuals should no longer own a semiautomatical Kalashnikov<\/strong><\/h2>\n

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Illegally acquired firearms are increasingly being used by terrorists. During Friday’s attacks in the capital of France a vast majority of the victims have been killed by bullets.<\/p>\n

In January bombers who attacked in January editors of Charlie Hebdo and a Jewish shop in Paris used similiar weapons. Without intervention by passengers the assasin in August would have produced a tragedy with his gun in a fast moving train from Brussels to Paris.<\/p>\n

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According to PAP, if the Member States agree to the proposal of the European Commission, individuals will not be able to buy certain types of Kalashnikov – even when the law only allows the civilian semiautomatical version, which is used for the purpose of sport and needs a permit.<\/p>\n

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The end of the arms trade through the Internet?\u00a0<\/strong><\/h2>\n

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The Commission also proposes a ban for buying weapons and ammunition through the internet. It also wants across the EU the same rules for marking weapons so that EC could effectively ”follow” these guns, even if they change the owner.<\/p>\n

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The Commission wants all national registers of weapons combined in a huge pan-European database.<\/p>\n

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EU countries should also inform about all refusals to grant a permit for a weapon. \u00a0(This regards export permits to third countries – outside of the EU).<\/p>\n

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The framework of the Directive would also regulated access to weapons parts. The EC believes that with these parts a licit rifle can be easily converted into a deadly weapon and serve the attacks. The new rules would also introduce restrictions for collectors of weapons, in order to reduce the risk of sales of weapons held by them to terrorists.<\/p>\n

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There may be restrictions on the sale of deactivated weapons<\/strong><\/h2>\n

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The EC also wants further to restrict the ownership of deactivated weapons which could easily be coverted to reactivated weapons.<\/p>\n

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In Poland (and other Member States) there are shops that offer such a weapon (including a semi-automatic) without permission over the internet. Theoretically people are able to reactivate such a gun by reaming the chamber or by welding the barrel.<\/p>\n

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This kind of gun has been used by the assassin who might have carried out in August his massacre on the train from Brussels to Paris, had his gun not jammed. The jamming allowed the terrorist incapacitation.<\/p>\n

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See the original news: http:\/\/m.wiadomosci.gazeta.pl\/wiadomosci\/1,117915,19197281,po-zamachach-we-francji-ke-chce-ograniczen-w-dostepie-do-broni.html<\/a><\/p>\n

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The answer of Firearms United founder Andrzej Turczyn, president of Polish ROMB:<\/strong><\/h1>\n

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Restricting access to weapons is an immoral crusade against law-abiding citizens<\/strong><\/h2>\n

Which of the EU countries issued a permit for the islamic gun terrorists from Paris?\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n