From: Don Baldwin, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Still, if Switzerland joins the EU I'm off!
If die Schweiz joins the UK, doesn't that mean they'll have to adopt
tighter gun laws?
Don
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Der Schweiz. I assume you meant EU.
Switzerland already enacted about 90% of what it needs to in 1998 to
comply with the European Firearms Directive. The only things they
would need to add would be the requirement for a European Firearms
Pass (for travelling outside Switzerland), Article 7 purchase
authority (required for buying a Category B firearm in another
EU State) and restricting expanding pistol ammunition to "sporting
purposes" for use by people over 18. And I suppose they would have
to recognise deactivated firearms too.
Other than that they already have it all. Their law uses the
definitions of firearms in the EFD, they already require an
individual purchase authorisation to buy a Category B firearm,
sales of Category A firearms are limited to bona fide collectors
and so on.
I have no doubt there would be lots of EU bureaucrats trying to
twist their arm into tighter controls but then they are now anyway.
Steve.
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