Beitrag
von Bdave » Di 21. Jun 2016, 15:06
Dear David
Thank you for your email and concerns over these directives regarding firearms. As more terrorist attacks/ threats occur, the Commission brings out more firearms directives to counterbalance this in the hope to eradicate terrorism!!
The detail is continuously changing. However two points are very clear.
First, the weapons used in the Paris atrocity, and more generally the weapons used in most terrorist attacks, are as you say illegally-held weapons. Changing the law on gun ownership is therefore unlikely to have any significant impact on the availability of weapons to terrorists. Indeed the EU is clearly the problem, not the solution. There is extensive evidence that for example Croatia, which recently joined the EU, is a hotbed of smuggling – not only of arms, but also of money, drugs, people and even human organs. It has been said (and it is no exaggeration) that free movement of goods and people in the EU (and especially the Schengen area) has led to free movement of Kalashnikovs.
The problem is not that we have too little regulation, but that we are failing to implement the legislation we already have.
Secondly, so far as we understand it the UK already has some of the tightest firearms regulation in the world. We do not believe that further legislation at the EU level will make any additional contribution to public safety. In any case we in UKIP are opposed in principle to any extension of competences at the EU level.
I therefore believe that we in UKIP will be opposing the new EU Firearms proposal. Sadly, however, I fear it will be approved anyway. There is nothing most MEPs like more than a nice piece of gesture politics in response to public concern – whether or not their gesture has any practical effect.
With kind regards
Caroline Sack
P.A to Diane James MEP
+44 (0)1306 770535
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