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The European Chemicals Agency (ECHA) has been formally requested to prepare a restriction proposal on the placing on the market and the use of lead in ammunition (gunshot and bullets). The proposal should address even lead in fishing weights (!). FACE and CIC, two of the most important European and international organizations representing hunters' interests, express their concern. And the struggle …

On April, 25, 2017 the Council adopted  an important directive on control of the acquisition and possession of weapons and firearms. Even if the directive is from 2017, EU countries are implementing it only now in summer and autumn 2019, so that many shooters and collectors still don't know much about it. So let's talk about it now. Because this EU directive radically modifies and renews the …

The Florida Commission has produced a brandnew draft report, to ensure a tragedy like Parkland 2018 never again will happen.  Among the recommendations, more funding for the “Guardian Program” that allows school employees to carry guns on school campuses. Not exactly what “gun control” and “gun-free zones” advocates would expect in these days. Let’s have a deeper look, what’s the idea.

Israel is a country that has been facing terrorism and violence for many decades. Yet, Israeli regulations about gun licenses are going to be relaxed in 2018 so that many more law-abiding and well trained citizens can carry a gun. A folly?  

The gun-related industry and law-abiding gun enthusiasts worldwide are publicly challenging the anti-gun ideology and its bias. In a world where any kind of bias and discrimination is (rightly) considered abominable, only anti-gun bias and discrimination against law-abiding gun owners seems to be still considered acceptable if not commendable. Here is what the firearms industry is thinking.

A few days ago in a US school in Maryland an aggressor was neutralized by an armed school resource officer before he could cause a bloodbath. That’s a very different outcome compared to the Parkland school shooting in February 2018, where no one was armed apart from the killer - and seventeen people died.

An important information for all European hunters and gun-owners: once again, gun rights are under attack in Europe. Yet this time it is not the ideologically-driven EU, but the state governments of Poland and Norway. 

Once again, the US is shaken by a mass shooting and the debate about gun control is raging on. Yet, the system failed not because we need stricter gun laws, but because existing laws were not applied and red flags ignored. 

In the run-up to the IWA OutdoorClassics 2018, the ENFORCE TAC and the U.T.SEC will take place on March 7th and 8th, 2018. The latest products and innovations in the areas of duty weapons, operational clothing and emergency vehicles will be presented at the international trade fair for security experts and official security forces. The U.T.SEC. is an exhibition for unmanned technologies. Let us …

The US House of Representatives passed a law named “Concealed Carry Reciprocity Act”: a common-sense legislation that will allow law-abiding citizens with a concealed carry permit to travel freely between US states without worrying about conflicting state codes. Meanwhile, in Europe there is almost no reciprocity as far as national gun laws are concerned.

In the recent Texas shooting an armed citizen prevented the killer from taking many more lives. But if gun laws were stricter, the “good Samaritan”  might not have been able to have his gun... 

Last summer the Czech Republic filed a lawsuit against the EU directive restricting firearms possession and use. Now the Polish Ministry of Interior and Administration has initiated the procedure to participate in the proceedings for interim relief in the form of a suspension of the contested directive.

Is the EU trying to grab weapons from the hand of law-abiding citizens again? The restriction proposed by Brussels would be a hidden tax on shooters at best, and a de facto ban on hunting and shooting at worst. No reason to panic - but let's watch the situation closely! And let's always be one step ahead ...

A technology by which microscopic markings are imprinted on the ejected cartridges will help to solve crimes and fight crime? Not really. Here's why. 

The EU Parliament adopted the amendment to the EU Firearms Directive in March 2017. As a result the EU-wide legislation of firearms was tightened up. The Czech Republic now files a lawsuit against the new provision at the European Court of Justice.

The Czech Parliament just passed a constitutional amendment that gives legal gun owners a right to participate in the country's defense.