Ok let me explain:

To own a gun here you have to be in active sport competition.

The ROYAL national shooting body (the KNSA) a private body decides what sports are legitimate, and KNSA always hated every sport except the Olympic shooting sports and is against 'Combat' shooting. I had a discussion about this with a Dutch member here once:



Anyway the strategy of the KNSA was to just call for gun bans and basically say that guns are extremely dangerous and that they should only be available to serious sporters instead of slowly over many years warming the public to gun ownership. The president Lord Greven wasted time with reports with titles literally translate to that translate to 'Keeping out the Riff Raff' (Really like it was written by Basil Fawlty).

So without any consultation this elitist club just signed a deal that banned the dynamic sports (and thus the guns used or designed for those sports) and also will give them even more power.

I can however understand if there is a reason to save things for the greater good but in this case it was politically a non issue. The left didn't really care and the media had forgotten about it.
More importantly a .gov meeting of experts from police, experts academics and other fields concluded that no changes were really needed (apart from not issuing a registered madman a gun by an officer fired for corruption).

To make it even worse the shooter we had here never took part in any dynamic shooting (he did rim fire on stationary targets). The KNSA could have made a big deal of all this (remember there as no media frenzy or political controversy anymore) and refused to betray a legitimate sport (its called buffing). But then they always hated the dynamic variants and considered combat shooting not a real sport.

So now all our dynamic shooting sports and guns will be banned come November. Those in possession will be allowed to keep them as dust collectors in the safe, no transfer, no inheriting and no shooting.

The only semi autos you now will be allowed to have are for the sports service rifle and pistol, so only guns that have been in .mil service provided:

No magnum caliber guns
No compensators.
No optics (including red dots)
No lasers
Shitty triggers.
No tuning of guns
No adjustable sights (yes the metal ones) on pistols.
No diaopter sights on long guns.

Not certain of all the details yet but it will look something like this.

BTW pal, I need help with filling that petition out, tried twice now and my name still isn't on the list.

Tony

Thanks for the support guys. Although I fear the shooting community is waking up a tad to late on this one

The petition is an official one and legal one not some Nigerian scam , do this:

Scroll down, where it says “Ik” – you fill in your name

- Where it says ”wonede te” you fill in your city and country.

- Tick the checkbox if you want to allow your name to be shown on the list. (Do this otherwise your email will be listed as a matter of public record).

- Enter your email address

- And click the yellow box “ondertekenen” to sign the petition

-You will be sent a mail to confirm your signing of the petition -> click the provided link to confirm (you MUST do this)

-You get sent to a page, scroll down and click on the yellow button called 'bevestigen' (you dont have to fill in any axtra info on that page)

thanks, I'm going to fill the form right now and send the link to other friends

a lot of antiguns/antihunt/antieverything people & politicians here in Italy...
thank God there's an association called FISAT (Italian Association of History, Guns & Shooting) with some good lawyers that help us honest citizens.

I have to admit, that Czech shooting federation (or how is that bunch of commies called) has rather similar ideas, but its fortunately less vocal and powerful.
Ive voted and posted instructions on strelectvi.cz

Czech pro-gun lobby, they seek cooperation with other European pro-gun organizations and helped to establish Slovakian Legis Telum.
www.gunlex.cz

Thanks for the support guys, the shooters here are definitely trying to reverse this as it makes no sense whatsoever (our recent shooter was a static rim fire guy)

I really have no clue why this suddenly popped up because the whole matter seemed to be closed.

Our own shooting organisation looks to be the one behind it for the moment as they have stated their dislike for 'combat' shooting in the past

well, I sent an email to that italian association called FISAT with a link to the SaveDynamicShooting website:

They told me FISAT know about this story and they're working on it. They've already contacted Mr. Saul Kirsch (who is he?) and we'll get some updates quite soon on campagnafisat.it


ETA: I've started a thread on TOS too, the more the better

Hopefully some good news.

We had public hearing today in parliament and almost all parties though the plan was retarded even the 'Green Leftist Party' (extreme left wing) were complaining about how far the measure went.

Have to go now but hope to update ASAP

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-17811509

Will this influence the outcome of any new legislation???

Tony

Health and Safety .

Fingers still X'd.

Tony

We don't have a choice on the matter. We fight them on any restrictions they announce, some we win, and some we loose, at the end of the day irrespective of our efforts they'll introduce whatever legislation they want to.

The trick to not getting depressive about it all is to have alternative hobbies and interests, not having all of your eggs in one basket so to speak....

Me I like hunting, shooting, any type of firearm including air-guns, archery, and my family. Oh and Zombies, as TBH those leaders of ours are as damn near to being zeds than any other life form on the planet .

Iggy any news??

Tony.

Iggy, no sweat pal, you covered the bases that I purposely avoided/neglected to mention , and your opinions are very close to my own .

Tony

That unfortunately will be the big test, the sheeple who aren't interested in shooting sports, only see what the media regurgitates and normally after an incident has happened.

They are then amazed at it all, and as they are worried about becoming the next victims of such an incident they are more than happy to have their government look after their interests and enact laws to protect them.....

What we need to do is get more people who have never had any interest in the shooting sports educated and informed of the realities of our sport.

Tony