Franco Palamaro The EC's push for stricter gun regulations comes in a moment when the European people is more interested than ever to gun ownership for sporting, hunting, and defensive purposes

But there's much more than meets the eye, and that's enough to give us the creeps. According to the final report, the Council of the Justice and Home Affairs Ministers of the European Union vastly agreed that "Semi-automatic firearms should continue to be authorised for civilian use, but under stricter conditions."

Here's the trick: the Council didn't wrote or talk about "Military-style semi-automatic firearms", but just of "Semi-automatic firearms", in general. If we take into the due consideration a letter sent by the European Commission on March 7th (available here in its original form and here as commented by Firearms United) to the governments of Finland and Sweden, we get a much clearer picture: the European Commission will not stop at modern sporting rifles; their goal is to uniform the gun laws of all EU-member States to the British standard, as much as possible.

And as a matter of fact, the British Government is one of the main sponsors of the proposed EU gun ban; according to some analysts, the British Government may be pushing the forced export of their gun laws to the rest of the European Union as a bargaining chip to keep the Country in the EU: Great Britain is set for a legally-binding poll in June. Currently, Britain is witnessing the surge of a movement aimed to obtain significant relaxations to the local gun laws, and the British Government may be willing to use any trick to avoid it.

