{"id":1727,"date":"2016-11-09T14:11:26","date_gmt":"2016-11-09T13:11:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/firearms-united.com\/?p=1727"},"modified":"2016-12-14T07:32:24","modified_gmt":"2016-12-14T06:32:24","slug":"fu-agrees-kings-aim-not-way","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.firearms-united.com\/pt\/fu-agrees-kings-aim-not-way\/","title":{"rendered":"FIREARMS UNITED agrees with Commissioner King&#8217;s aim &#8211; but not with his way!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"qtranxs-available-languages-message qtranxs-available-languages-message-pt\">Desculpe, este conte\u00fado s\u00f3 est\u00e1 dispon\u00edvel em <a href=\"https:\/\/www.firearms-united.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1727\" class=\"qtranxs-available-language-link qtranxs-available-language-link-en\" title=\"English\">Ingl\u00eas (Eua)<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.firearms-united.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1727\" class=\"qtranxs-available-language-link qtranxs-available-language-link-de\" title=\"Deutsch\">Alem\u00e3o<\/a> e <a href=\"https:\/\/www.firearms-united.com\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1727\" class=\"qtranxs-available-language-link qtranxs-available-language-link-fi\" title=\"suomi\">Finland\u00eas<\/a>. Por uma quest\u00e3o de conveni\u00eancia para o utilizador, o conte\u00fado \u00e9 mostrado abaixo no idioma por omiss\u00e3o para este site. Pode clicar numa das liga\u00e7\u00f5es para mudar o site para outro idioma dispon\u00edvel.<\/p><strong>King wants an\u00a0agreement that would restrict the circulation of fully automatic and converted semi-automatic weapons in such a way that safeguards their legitimate use. FIREARMS UNITED agrees with this aim \u2013 the safeguard of legitimate use, that is. <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>King believes that the European Commission, Council and Parliament can come out with effective control measures against criminal misuse of firearms. We don&#8217;t think that any possible compromise between their current positions could have any effect on illegally held firearms. It would, instead, have a huge negative impact on legally held firearms, their owners and the civilian firearms industry that supports more than 580,000 jobs in small and medium enterprises. <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>MEP Jussi Halla-Aho, co-chair of our <a href=\"http:\/\/firearms-united.com\/firearms-directive-conference\/\" target=\"_blank\">Firearms Directive Conference<\/a>, asked the right questions in LIBE committee to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.europarl.europa.eu\/news\/en\/news-room\/20160909IPR41739\/parliament-endorses-sir-julian-king-as-commissioner-for-security-union\" target=\"_blank\">Sir Julian King, the new Commissioner for Security Union<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"x-resp-embed x-is-video x-is-youtube\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"846\" height=\"476\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/clsxLOMWIdc?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Transcript<\/p>\n<p><strong>MEP Jussi Halla-Aho :\u00a0<\/strong>Mr. Commissioner, you know in previous dialogue I asked for your views on the Commission proposal for a new firearms directive.\u00a0Now that the triallogues are underway I would like to repeat the question and I would appreciate an answer more concrete than that you aim for a fair and balanced outcome.<\/p>\n<p><strong>So will the Commission continue to insist stubbornly on a total ban and confiscation of semi-automatic sporting rifles?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Despite the fact that this line has been heavily criticized in both the European Parliament and the Council. And <strong>despite the fact that no criminological study suggests this particular type of legally acquired and possessed firearms we&#8217;re a threat to public security.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Does the Commission consider starting to <strong>respect the EU&#8217;s own principles of good legislation<\/strong>?<\/p>\n<p>From your initial brief remarks I got the impression that you are rather enthusiastic about the Commission proposal.\u00a0But i hope this is a false impression.<\/p>\n<p>Thank you<\/p>\n<p><strong>Julian King, Commissioner for Security Union:\u00a0<\/strong>On the particular question of firearms &#8211; raised by one of the Honorable members &#8211; I&#8217;m terribly sorry &#8211; \u00a0<strong>I am enthusiastic about the Commission position.\u00a0<\/strong>I think you would be very surprised if I took any position other than to support the Commission position.<\/p>\n<p>But as I set out I do really want us now to find a way of agreeing together what we&#8217;re going to do in this area.<\/p>\n<p>Because I think more than a year on from the events at Bataclan it is getting quite hard to explain publicly why it is we stucked.<\/p>\n<p>Now in order to reach an agreement, it has to be an agreement that <strong>all parties can rally to: the Commission and the States and the Parliament<\/strong>.\u00a0So I don&#8217;t at all want to take away from the very detailed debate that is taking place on <strong>how exactly to formulate effective controls.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>But I do hope that we will be able to find an agreement soon. <strong>And that agreement will restrict the circulation of fully automatic and converted semi-automatic weapons in a way that respects their legitimate use<\/strong> in different communities, in different parts of our society.<\/p>\n<p>That I think is the aspiration and I hope we were able to realize it.","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Desculpe, este conte\u00fado s\u00f3 est\u00e1 dispon\u00edvel em Ingl\u00eas (Eua). Por uma quest\u00e3o de conveni\u00eancia para o utilizador, o conte\u00fado \u00e9 mostrado abaixo no idioma alternativo. Pode clicar na liga\u00e7\u00e3o para alterar o idioma activo.King wants an\u00a0agreement that would restrict the circulation of fully automatic and converted semi-automatic weapons in such a way that safeguards their legitimate use. FIREARMS UNITED agrees &#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.firearms-united.com\/pt\/fu-agrees-kings-aim-not-way\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":1732,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sfsi_plus_gutenberg_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_show_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_type":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_alignemt":"","sfsi_plus_gutenburg_max_per_row":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[40,93,34,154,82],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.firearms-united.com\/pt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1727"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.firearms-united.com\/pt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.firearms-united.com\/pt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.firearms-united.com\/pt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.firearms-united.com\/pt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1727"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/www.firearms-united.com\/pt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1727\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2017,"href":"https:\/\/www.firearms-united.com\/pt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1727\/revisions\/2017"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.firearms-united.com\/pt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1732"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.firearms-united.com\/pt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1727"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.firearms-united.com\/pt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1727"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.firearms-united.com\/pt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1727"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}