{"id":1780,"date":"2016-11-18T12:53:29","date_gmt":"2016-11-18T11:53:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/firearms-united.com\/?p=1780"},"modified":"2016-11-20T18:08:41","modified_gmt":"2016-11-20T17:08:41","slug":"gunban","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.firearms-united.com\/fr\/gunban\/","title":{"rendered":"EU split on semi-automatic weapons"},"content":{"rendered":"

D\u00e9sol\u00e9, cet article est seulement disponible en Anglais Am\u00e9ricain<\/a>. Pour le confort de l\u2019utilisateur, le contenu est affich\u00e9 ci-dessous dans une autre langue. Vous pouvez cliquer le lien pour changer de langue active.<\/p>Article of EUobserve<\/a><\/strong>r by NIKOLAJ NIELSEN<\/a>\u00a0of 14\/11\/16:<\/p>\n

EU lawmakers are meeting on Tuesday (15 November) for another round of backroom talks to curb gun violence and prevent terrorists from acquiring weapons on the black market.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Debates around the European Commission’s EU firearms directive reform, proposed in the aftermath the Paris November terrorist attacks, appears to be advancing as positions converge between the two co-legislatures at the European Parliament and the Council, representing member states.<\/p>\n

The latest reform tabled by the EU commission’s internal affairs branch, DG Home, intends to, among other things, restrict the online purchase of weapons, ban certain semi-automatic firearms as well as so-called deactivated guns that can no longer fire bullets.<\/p>\n

Michael Benstein, a weapons expert in German Federal Police Office said: Manufacturers design semi-automatic weapons to look less like their military grade counterparts.<\/p>\n

Benstein also noted that some hunting rifles use the same technology as the Kalashnikovs that killed dozens of people in Paris this time last year.*<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u00ab\u00a0We would end up banning a whole category of weapons without any real effect,\u00a0\u00bb he said.<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

FIREARMS UNITED: *\u00a0Guns don’t kill, terrorists kill!
\nAnd they use tracks, bombs, knives and fire – if they get no guns. We assume that the expert Benstein did not use these words as he knows that people kill, not tools.<\/p>\n

We recommend to read the whole article as the journalist did what journalist have to do. He showed both sites<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Nils Duquet<\/strong> from the Flemish Peace Institute, who writes the biased reports for DG Home Firearms Taskforce Head Fabio Marini<\/a>. It is very interesting that the author links the proposal – as we do – to DG Home and not to DG Grow which published it.<\/p>\n

Michael Benstein<\/strong>, a weapons expert in German Federal Police Office, who made an excellent speech at LIBE meeting in European Parliament in February and also gave the right answers.<\/p>\n

You can watch the whole Mini Hearing with translations here: \u00a0Link<\/a><\/p>\n

A summary in German you can find here: Link<\/a><\/p>\n