{"id":48286,"date":"2015-11-19T10:59:46","date_gmt":"2015-11-19T15:59:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gunsamerica.com\/blog\/?p=48286"},"modified":"2015-11-19T10:59:46","modified_gmt":"2023-08-19T04:07:23","slug":"paris-attacks-precipitate-death-blow-on-gun-rights-across-eu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gunsamerica.com\/digest\/paris-attacks-precipitate-death-blow-on-gun-rights-across-eu\/","title":{"rendered":"Paris Attacks Precipitate Death Blow to Gun Rights Across EU"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Internal Market and Industry Commissioner El\u017cbieta Bie\u0144kowska, on the left and Migration, Home Affairs and Citizenship Commissioner Dimitris Avramopoulos, on the right who said about the gun-control package, “The adoption of the firearms package today is proof of the Commission’s determination to address the new reality we are confronted with. We need to remove regulatory divergences across the EU by imposing stricter, harmonised EU standards for firearms and ensuring efficient exchange of information between Member States.”<\/p><\/div>\n

Keeping true to the immortal words or gun-control czar Rahm Emanuel, gun-grabbers in the European Union are not going to let a tragedy go to waste. They know that in the wake of the attacks in Paris emotions are at a high and sound reason is at a low creating an ideal environment to ram through comprehensive reforms that further disarm the citizens of Europe.<\/p>\n

Furthermore, they know that people are looking for something to blame, something to direct their ire at, and they are quick to point to the hardware that millions of good guys use to defend themselves, their families and their property from evildoers.<\/p>\n

As we\u2019ve witnessed in our own country, this scapegoating strategy works. New York\u2019s \u201cSAFE Act<\/a>,\u201d Maryland\u2019s \u201cFirearm Safety Act of 2013,<\/a>\u201d Connecticut\u2019s \u201cAn Act Concerning Gun Violence Prevention and Children\u2019s Safety<\/a>\u201d \u2014 all draconian gun bans passed in the wake of the mass shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut. Instead of focusing on mental health, school safety and gun-free zones, leaders in those states blew the bottom out of the Second Amendment all in the name of the false promise of “public safety.”<\/p>\n

Now, the European Commission is doing the same. Though, it\u2019s a bit different in the sense that in Europe, there is no Constitutionally-enshrined right to keep and bear arms. So, gun owners in the various member states are already at a disadvantage. And things are going to get a whole lot worse because the measures proposed by the European Commission basically deal a death blow to gun rights in the EU.<\/p>\n

Below are the main elements of the package:<\/p>\n