Politico SPRL According to Firearms United's sources, the European Commission has no intention to back off, and is willing to do anything to make its proposed gun ban a reality

Following a briefing with its well-informed sources − whose nature can not be specified to maintain OPSEC while they closely monitor the progress of the proposed EU gun ban in Brussels − the Firearms United network is once again raising an alert about the proposed restrictive amendments to the European Directive on firearms and on the forces that are relentlessly working to disarm the honest citizens of Europe.

This latest wave of alarming news should be immediately bought to the attention of all the shooters' communities of Europe, as well as to all the industry and gun distributors' associations to encourage a stronger sense of unity and proactive actions in defense of our rights.

In January 26, 2016, the European Economic and Social Committee (EESC) issued a paper outlining its opinions on the proposed EU gun ban. Needless to say, the document is overtly in favor of the European Commission's gun ban proposal, and turns totalitarian in its praise of the British and Australian-style gun bans and in-famous forced buyback operations. In the mid-1980's, the mid-1990s and the early 2000s, Australia and the United Kingdom carried on sweeping gun bans and forced law-abiding gun owners to turn in their firearms − for no other real reason but out of sheer mistrust against common citizens − in exchange of a small monetary compensation.



Those buybacks violated the British and Australian citizens' rights and deprived them of legally-owned properties as knee-jerk reactions to tragic events, but neither the British nor the Australian gun bans and buyback prevented further gun crime or mass shootings.