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Save our Deactivated Firearms !

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 think 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 criminals . It attacks the law abiding turning some into criminals and will waste a lot of police time enforcing a pointless new law .
 
Never-the-less the EU have proposed to amend their firearms directive to prohibit  certain semi-automatic firearms  "which will not, under any circumstance, be allowed to be held by private persons, even if they have been permanently deactivated ".

I have started a Facebook group and an online petition - Please sign the petition . 

https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/121575

 
Terrorists  use working guns . Such banning of deactivated firearms will have zero effect in preventing terrorism .
Thousands of law abiding people own them without any problems . The proposal would seriously impact collectors , re-enactors , hobbyists and others . 

 It would also deprive honest citizens of their property without compensation as once this directive is in force no transfer of ownership can legally be made rendering hitherto valuable property worthless.

Directive proposal here "-
http://europa.eu/rapid/press-release_IP-15-6110_en.htm
 Rules banning transfer to avoid paying compensation
 http://ec.europa.eu/DocsRoom/documents/13965/attachments/3/translations/en/renditions/native

"(9) Taking into account the risk as regards the security, firearms deactivated prior to the date of application of this Regulation and which are placed on the market, including transmission for free, exchange or barter, or transferred to another Member State after that date should be subject to the provisions of this Regulation."

 

My original petition was rejected as the UK parliament has no power to act against directives from the EU .

Their reply was " We rejected the petition you created – “Keep Deactivated Weapons Legal by changing the Proposed EU Directive on Guns”.
It’s about something that the UK Government or Parliament is not responsible for.”

I have started a new petition which hopefully shows the correct amount of humbleness to the EU . I hope the new words expressing surrender of UK powers to Europe may be more successful . I now call on the UK government to “ Work with other EU member states to Keep Permanently Deactivated Weapons Legal “


Please sign the petition to prevent this pointless injustice .

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