Amend This Stupid Directive ! Sign The Petition ! HERE Citizens will loose the right to own even " permanently deactivated" ex-guns like these even if their ancestors carried them in defense of liberty ! The European Union , allegedly in response to the Paris terror attacks carried out with actual machine guns , seem to thin k prohibiting law abiding citizens from owning "permanently deactivated" ( ie non working ) guns will somehow make the people safer . It seems that some Balkan states now in the EU previously had very shoddy procedures for deactivation of the many surplus weapons that abounded there after their civil war and the fall of Communism . These procedures have now been brought in line with existing EU law and thus the stable door is already shut on " convertible " Deactivated weapons . Adding permanently deactivated ex-guns to this ban will do nothing whatsoever to give the slightest inconvenience to terrorists or c...