Ban imminent?

[Scully]

https://ukshootingnews.wordpress.com/2016/12/14/eu-gun-ban-imminent-buy-magazines-now/

[neil w]

Not good news. As usual not too clear. Special licence for magazines for more than ten shot capacity.

A magazine must have a serial number like the rifles action. They are going to.put s5 expanding Into s1. And then they come up with this !!.

[neutron619]

I don't own a semi-automatic rifle and never will, but I'm happy to object to more regulations on principle - they'll achieve nothing except the gradual and piecemeal disarmament of the population, which has of course been the point all along.

 

Whilst I never expect the EU / politicians / police forces to have any justification for the ludicrous schemes they come up with, the thing I'm not able to understand is why?

 

Usually they at least go to the bother of inventing some politically-spun reason, but here, I'm not clear on what reason they're giving for all this ****.

 

Are they, for instance, saying that the f*ckheads who want to shoot up a nightclub will now be forced to reload twice if they want to reach their "30 civillians dead" quota? In which case, I don't think the chaps at the Bataclan had much trouble operating a magazine release catch.

 

Or is it because the Belgian police can't actually aim a shot at a terrorists vitals and take it unless they've got the time it takes said terrorist to reload to do it? A sort of "ok chaps, it'll be ten dead civilians before we get him, but hey, at least it's not thirty and I won't have had to risk my own **** to shoot him with this super-powerful automatic rifle, I'm erm... holding here... erm..."?

 

Or is it that they've discovered that 30-round banana mags are actually quite heavy - especially when loaded - and they're worried that the poor little people who need to be guided and taught to bask in the glory of the European project might drop them on their feet and break a toenail? They're a serious business, toenails. I believe our Glorious Leader Mr Juncker has a man on his staff employed especially to cope with that contingency.

 

If I didn't know well enough already how sinister these people are, I'd put money on the third option. How I wish it were true.

Edited December 14, 2016 by neutron619

[MonkeyKong]

That is really going to stymie all those terrorists who obtain their fully licensed guns through the proper, legal channels.

[BerettaSV10]

That is really going to stymie all those terrorists who obtain their fully licensed guns through the proper, legal channels.

 

 

It's probably what politicians think will happen, about time they came down from cuckoo land and into the real world and spent the money on tracking where the illegal arms are coming from and stop the source/s, that will cost to much money and resources for the government, easier to target legit shooters. :(

[Westward]

This is part of a wider process in modern society which has government mandarins and their minnions constantly dreaming up legislation and rules in order to control behaviour or take away from the individual the personal responsibility for wellbeing and safety. Since the people planning and implementing all these rules & restrictions perceive themselves to be benign and acting for the greater good of society we end up sleepwalking our way towards a society which is progressively removing our historical freedoms.

 

It's not just guns folks, it's almost everything - and if you think I'm being paranoid, ask anyone who grew up in the 50s and 60s about the personal freedoms we had back then compared with today.