EU Firearms Directive - READ & TAKE ACTION

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This is going to affect you BIG TIME.


PLEASE EMAIL THIS to all UK Clubs & bodies, and buddies...

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"The proposal to amend the EU Firearms Directive (“The Proposal”) is available together with the existing EU Firearms
Directive (91/477/EEC) at:

http://www.ukpsa.co.uk/EUFirearmsDirect ... oposal.zip

The proposed changes include the following:
1. Banning “semi-automatic firearms for civilian use which resemble weapons with automatic mechanisms”, which
could have the effect of banning most, if not all, semi-automatics, including 0.22s and Section 1 shotguns.
2. Regulating blank firing and other replicas, probably including airguns.
3. Introducing stricter specifications on deactivated firearms.
4. Banning the ownership of Category A firearms, even when deactivated.
5. Introducing a standard medical test for applicants.
6. Introducing a five year ceiling to the life of a firearms certificate.
7. Bringing collectors and sound moderators within the scope of the Firearms Directive.
8. Introducing competence checks for firearms dealers and brokers in addition to safety/criminal checks.
9. Tightening of the distance selling regulations for firearms dealers.
10. Introducing stricter marking and tracing rules.

If adopted, Item 1 could effectively kill off IPSC shooting in the EU and could see the end of IPSC Shotgun and Mini
Rifle, together with UKPSA LBF, in the UK.

Item 2 could have a significant impact on IPSC Action Air, together with other airsoft/skirmishing disciplines, in the
UK.

The Proposal has been placed on the draft agenda for a meeting of the EU Committee on the Internal Market and
Consumer Protection due to be held on the 7th December 2015 in Brussels.

What is the UKPSA doing about this?
The Association is currently consulting with:
The British Shooting Sports Council (BSSC).
The International Practical Shooting Confederation (IPSC).

Other IPSC Regions, including all 27 Regions that are member states of the EU.

What should you do about this NOW? Time is of the essence.

1. Support the petition at: https://www.change.org/p/council-of-the ... m=copylink

2. Leave feedback on the Proposal at: https://ec.europa.eu/transparency/regdo ... Id=3085376

3. Find out who your MEPs are at: http://www.europarl.org.uk/en/your-meps/printable.html

4. Contact your MEPs using one or more of the following methods of communication (in descending order of
effectiveness):
a. Face to face meeting.
b. Letter.
c. Telephone call.
d. Email.

5. When communicating with your MEPs BE POLITE. By all means be passionate, but BE POLITE. Do not RANT.

6. A list of some response points that can be incorporated in your communications with your MEPs is shown below.

Ideally those that you select should be expressed in your own words. They are not exclusive and not intended to
preclude you from adding other points that you consider appropriate. The more individualistic your letter the better.

Response Points
You will be aware that a proposal to amend the EU Firearms Directive (“The Proposal”), mooted in April, has been
brought forward in light of the recent atrocities in Paris.

This Proposal, if adopted, whilst having a major impact on EU sportsmen and women, as well as collectors, will not
have the slightest effect on terrorists. There are already millions of unlicensed firearms available to them in the EU,
many left as a legacy of the dissolution of the Soviet Union and the freedom of movement within the EU enables their
easy and unregulated transportation.

The EU is undoubtedly using the surge of emotion following the atrocities in Paris as an opportunity to rush through the
Proposal, which is both cynical and appallingly disrespectful to the Paris victims.

£Millions will have to be paid in compensation, when the money would be better spent on fighting terrorism. After the
UK ban on handguns, the government established a £150 million program to compensate handgun owners.

There is no correlation between terrorists’ or criminals’ use of firearms and legitimate shooters.

Sporting & recreational shooters are law abiding.

It should be noted that after handguns were banned in Britain 18 years ago the criminal use of handguns increased.

The Proposal would ban a firearm type (semi-automatic) because it might look like a fully automatic firearm (a
category banned for civilian ownership throughout the EU).

Confusing form with function is not a credible response to those that are intent on acquiring the real thing. Which they
can and do with impunity.

But should they not be able to acquire an illicit firearm they make a bomb.

The EU Proposal would also sabotage deactivated weapons. This is a large industry encompassing museums, collectors,
film and drama usage, re-enactments. Deactivated weapons cannot be reactivated if performed to UK standards.

Licensing such deactivated firearms is totally impractical. In Britain alone there are an estimated 240,000 deacs in
circulation of which around half may be full-auto or semi-auto.

The current British Firearms Licensing system is already at full stretch without the additional burden of registering
deactivated fireams.

If enacted the Proposal will cost jobs. It will decimate the legitimate activities or sporting and recreational shooters and
collectors. It will seriously harm the economy. And it will not make a scrap of difference to terrorism. It is an
overbearing and misdirected.

It would be a costly and ineffective diversion from where the real focus should be.

There is much debate over data encryption on the internet as this hampers the intelligence services to monitor terrorist
and criminal’s communications. Yet the Schengen Agreement allows the free movement of the terrorists and their illicit
equipment. Where is the logic in that?

Responsible holders of legal firearms and deactivated weapons – sporting & recreational shooters, collectors - rely on
their elected representatives in the European Parliament to prevent them becoming unnecessary collateral victims of
terrorism.

This Proposal must be robustly resisted. I am sure, however, terrorists would give it their full support.

I welcome your views & position on this unjust, expensive and ultimately misguided Proposal."
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This is Huge , and can affect every one of us.
Gun shops ,traders ,dealers in , Germany,Holland,Belgium,France , Spain,Portugal even Denmark are all already kicking up a stink about this, and what are we doing in the UK , sweet FA that's what.
What the frack are GTA,AMTA,BASC doing ??????????????? no one has had a peep out of them, they were all ready to hang draw and quarter any one who shopped abroad , and god forbid any one even mentioning SA.
Just taking one item from this proposal , the banning of anything SA or SIMILAR TO SA , did you read that SIMILAT TO SEMI AUTOMATIC , any weapon with a magazine , no matter magazine fed, belt fed ,gravity fed , yeas even the carousel , yes that's YOU with the revolver six shooter, any thing that looks vaguely military or police , black,green,camo , were all in the shit.

Now get of your backsides , start kicking some backsides , and get Signing partitions.
get on the other forums and tell people what's going on.

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The EU will publish a TOTAL semi-auto rifle ban proposal tomorrow


The European Union’s draft proposals for amendments to its Firearms Directive will be published tomorrow as a response to the Paris mass murders, according to watchdog group Firearms United.

UPDATE: The ban’s terms have now been published. UKSN is turning them into plain English here.

A Polish newspaper article (in Polish) reveals that a source referred to as “PAP” – evidently some kind of shooters’ association, though its exact identity is lost in translation – disclosed the proposals yesterday.

Central to the proposal is a ban on all semi-automatic rifles “similar to that used by the military”. While UK Shooting News is relying on Google Translate, translations of this concept from other reports on the same topic seem to indicate that the EU wants to go down the American route of banning firearms from civilian ownership depending on their looks.

“Which of the EU countries issued a permit for the islamic gun terrorists from Paris?”, Firearms United founder Andrzej Turczyn asked. “None of the terrorists had been able to possess a weapon with a permit. But these laws did not stop the Islamists from committing a hideous crime in Paris. For what reason, therefore, proposes the European Commission now – after the assassination in Paris – limited access to firearms for law-abiding Europeans? Others, like criminals or terrorists, do not pay attention to the law at all.”

Initially, the amendment was planned for next year, but the European Commission over the weekend analyzing the possible reactions to the Paris bombings recognized the need to accelerate the project.

It seems likely that the EU will use the Paris murders as an excuse to bring forward a long-planned ban on semi-automatic rifles. There has been no suggestion from politicians or news media that the murderers used legally acquired firearms.

Polish EU commissioner Elżbieta Bieńkowska is mentioned by name as being involved with the project. Firearms United appears to believe that Bienkowska may have revealed details of the gun ban push rather than being a driving force behind it.

The Poles are not happy with the EU’s proposals. The newspaper reports:

According to PAP, if Member States agree to the proposal of the European Commission, individuals will not be able to buy (for example) certain types of Kalashnikov (which Polish law permits). To acquire such a semi-automatic weapon that at least the premise is to serve the purpose of sports, but you have to have a permit.

The EU also wants to outlaw internet sales of firearms, which has serious implications for modern business’ ability to trade effectively:

The Commission has also propose tighter control of buying weapons and ammunition in order to eliminate the possibility of trading them through the internet. He also wants to across the EU are the same rules for marking weapons so that it could effectively “follow”, even if you change the owner.

“National registers of weapons would be combined in order to create a pan-European database”, continued the report, which stated that all refusals of grants of firearms certificates would be added to this database. Legitimate collectors will also be targeted by the EU, with increased restrictions on their ability to pursue their hobby.

The EU’s proposals first came to light when the Finnish government announced it would oppose the semi-auto ban proposals. Finland’s population has long had a healthy relationship with firearms in the sporting and defence contexts, with domestic competitions used as a means to encourage reservists to maintain a high standard of marksmanship.

Last week Britain’s NABIS, a police agency which sees itself as a crusader against firearms ownership, hosted a conference of EU law enforcement agencies in Birmingham. Many of the EU’s current proposals have the reek of the British nanny state about them, while NABIS has previously ordered politicians to ignore Parliamentary questions about its activities. Now is the time for rigorous democratic oversight of this agency to ensure its employees’ personal views are not seen by the rest of the world as official UK policy.

Home Secretary Theresa May openly called for the EU to adopt UK-style firearms laws yesterday, in the Daily Express newspaper. May, who once branded her own Conservatives “the nasty party”, clearly has no idea that British firearms laws permit ownership of .22″ semi-automatics and straight-pull conversions of Kalashnikovs.

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https://ukshootingnews.wordpress.com/20 ... lt-rifles/

Home Secretary: EU must ban assault rifles

Theresa May has called for a ban on assault rifles across the entire EU, revealing her ignorance of British firearms licensing laws – which she is politically responsible for.

In comments made in Parliament yesterday and reported by the Daily Express, May said: “This Friday I will attend an extraordinary meeting of the European Justice and Home Affairs Council where I will press the need for greater information sharing, passenger name records and action on firearms.”

“In the UK we’ve seen tough legislation work so we want to see action taken to make a difference to the availability of firearms in Europe, especially assault rifles,” continued the Home Secretary.

Earlier today UK Shooting News reported further details of the EU’s proposed gun ban, which seems to cover all semi-automatic firearms and rifles that ‘look military’ in appearance. Poland is the latest nation to come out against it, with Finland having led the charge last week.

May doesn’t appear to know that the UK’s strict firearms laws ban certain firearms based on their dimensions: a firearm with an overall length of less than 24″ or a barrel less than 12″ long is prohibited. Self-loading rifles in any calibre greater than .22″ are also prohibited. Other than technical restrictions about shotgun magazine capacities and licence types, as well as bans on fully automatic firearms, pump-action shotguns and firearms disguised as other objects, that’s about it.

There are no bans in Britain based on the mere appearance of a firearm. May’s proposal would have a severe and immediate impact on the lawful shooting sports in the UK because there are many popular .22″ replicas of rifles used by governments on the market, from WW2 M1 Garands to modern MP5 clones.

Like many politicians faced with public calls to ‘do something’, May is taking the path of easiest resistance in order to appease the mob by appearing to be tough. Laws only target the law-abiding: smuggling firearms and using firearms to kill and injure are already criminal offences.

UKSN looks forward to British shooting representative bodies publicly calling politicians to account for these moves.


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The EU wants your .22 semi-auto: Finland leaks gun ban law details

European Union bureaucrats want to ban all semi-automatic rifles including .22s, have a total ban on civilians owning full auto firearms and impose a partial ban on internet firearm sales, according to the Finnish government.

Campaign group Firearms United, an association of EU recreational shooters, found the original Finnish report and ran it through Google Translate before posting the result on their Facebook page. The report was bylined to Maria Manner in the Helsingin Sanomat newspaper and the original is online here.

Finnish Interior Ministry’s data show that there are plans to ban‬ at least a series of firearms for private individuals, as well as changes in the availability and ecommerce for semi-automatic weapons.

“According to our records the biggest changes include a ban on a series of firearms and the transfer of semi-automatic weapons in the prohibited category, which resemble military weapons. It is not exactly known yet what would fall into this category,” said Police Inspector Seppo Sivula the Ministry of Interior Police Department.

The prohibition of a whole series of firearms would also include deactivated weapons owned by collectors. In addition, the Commission will consider to ban semi-automatic versions of assault rifles and submachine guns.

The report said the Finnish government opposes the EU bans because they would affect the ability of the country’s reservists to train for sporting competitions. It appears that some Finnish competitions are based around competitors using their service-issue rifles. In addition, the paper highlighted that any semi-auto ban would severely damage IPSC competition disciplines.

UK Shooting News reported that unelected EU bureaucrats had formally begun the process of rewriting the Firearms Directive, a diktat that all EU member countries must adopt through passing new national laws. In the UK such laws are typically brought onto the statute book through Statutory Instruments, which receive little or no Parliamentary debate time.

However, the EU rewrite comes as the Law Commission is still mulling over its response to the public consultation on the commission’s own proposals to update Britain’s firearms laws.

New bans are, it goes almost without saying, unnecessary, certainly in the British context of the strictest functional firearms licensing laws in the world.

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Worth a read and well explained: https://www.all4shooters.com/en/Shootin ... poll-lies/

"The poll will only be open until January 18th, 2016 while the proposal will be preliminarly introduced to the Committee on the Internal Market and Consumer Protection of the European Parliament next Monday, December 7th.

Time is PARAMOUNT here! Provide your feedback to the European Commission to voice your opposition! Download, read and spread the document on how Fabio Marini and other members of the EU's so-called "expert group on firearms" concocted to push their gun control agenda into effect!"

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