European News Service S.r.l. - eunews.it The LIBE Committee of the European Parliament voted on the amendments on May 9th, and the outcome was largely in our favour

In the late evening of May 9th, 2016, the Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs committee (LIBE) of the European Parliament held an electronic vote session on the amendments to the committee's draft opinion concerning the restrictive modification draft to the European firearms directive as proposed by the European Commission. Said vote was initially planned for Tuesday, April 28th, but was postponed under request from the EPP, ECR and ALDE groups.

And indeed those three groups led common sense and sanity to victory in today's vote, throwing out of the window most, if not all, of the largely anti-gun proposals of the European Commission and of the social-democrat, left and green groups.

While the LIBE's role in the procedure is merely consultive in nature, the outcome of the vote is enough for all law-abiding gun owners to cheer:

