What about saving shooting (from EU eurocrats)?

[TopCat]

I don't know how many E21 owners are keen on shooting (other than Lars)

But It seems the EU can't it keep its nose out of anything?

http://www.basc.org.uk/en/media/key_iss ... 313F7CFE14

I'd take the BASC approach on this - as the questions are biased for additional EU powers and controls select option 1 for everything, otherwise the next thing we'll find is the EU will be restricting legally held firearms even further.


I filled in the additional comments bit too - I don't know if anybody ever reads them, but I think it's worth doing. If anyone wants to use my stuff or improve on it, you're welcome to:

B) Gun crime is already being tackled and there are very strict laws and harsh punishments in place. No further intervention from the European Commission is required on this issue.

C) The restrictions on legally held firearms used for sport, hunting and pest control are already far too strict. Legally held firearms are not criminal weapons, nor are they linked in any way to the criminal use of firearms.
The European Commission should not interfere with legally held firearms in any way.

D) The deactivation and security requirements for firearms are already very strict and tightly controlled, and there are no changes that could be made which would improve public safety. Intervention from the European Commission is not required.

[Jeroen]

You're right imho. There are already very strict laws about owning guns for sports, hunting, etc and the one lunatic that actually has a permit would have gotten a gun without that license anyway so it's no use trying to prevent that from happening. I'm not into hunting myself as I have too many time and money consuming hobbies already, but I don't see any harm in hunting as it's allowed at this moment.

[Lars-Nord]

Here in Norway is it strict to have guns. We can have 6 guns for hunting if we have the hunting licence. You can take the licence when you are 14 and can have guns from the age of 16 if parents allow it. if not, from 18. Handguns are more strict. Age 21 and you have to be in a club for 6 months and have activity. Then you can have 4 handguns with no problem.
Then we have the IPSC practical shooting. They have made it even more strict to have guns. Semiautomatic rifels like the AR15. 2 year we now have to be a memder of a club and have some points every year from competition.

And some of us goes around that rules because we have had guns like that before. So I hope tomorrow I get my paper to get a new HK MR223.