If I was the president, I'd CCW all over the world just to piss off liberals

GEMA - discuss....

I've been readig that many writers, artists and performers signed up and paid their dues yet have never seen any return on their investment...

Merry Christmas to you Tony and the rest of our Euro squad.

I'm glad its over here already to be quite honest because my dad was taken into hospital on Christmas eve (last stages of cancer) but we all hoped he'd be home for Christmas.

The only good part is that it is a brain tumor and he's pain free. Tanks for the consideration buddy.

Sorry to hear that Tony, that is very young. It will be a big loss and my father is older (75) but we will cope and he will be remembered fondly by everybody.

Any may it be a good year for gun owners !

Happy New Year Europe !

Fantastic buy... I am also thinking about getting one, let me know how the toy rolls.

Werner Mauss - discuss...

Welcom back Tony ! Have they got it under control ?

Sorry to hear that Tony. Hope you get better soon !

I was thinking after we had the piss take thread that I have binned about the €U., as ARFCOM is about shooting and by and large a non-political forum, if we shouldn't start our own €U Pro's and cons thread. As long as it remains factual and people don't try to use it to torment or insult others I'd be prepared to let it roll. The €U is not going away and it would give us a feel for how our members from the different countries view the €U. I'd even be prepared to pin it, so that it'd be at the top of the page.

What do you think

Tony

Arfcom is in luck as I am actually a specialist in EU law concerning the internal market

Problem is that the EU likes to do other things besides purely ensuring the free movement of goods, services, people and capital.

Even the free movement articles are further hampered by idiotic paranoia's of national governments.

Swedes hate free movement of alcohol and Jet ski's for some reason. Germans are paranoid of anything medical (every government has some paranoia).

This has the effect that national governments start lobbying to have certain interests regulated like the UK under smiling Tony Blair with the Firearms directive.

My thesis was how national governments like to blame the free movement of goods for social problems caused by their own public policy failures.

On the Greek and topic is was clear to me from day one that it was just a massive con operation but people who work in my field are surprisingly easily gullible (in a buying gold dust from a gypsy sort of way). The theory was at the time that you had to trust national government data and its simply not good form to call other government officials scumbag con artists. But then again nobody ever bother to ask my opinion.

An other major problem in the EU is something called 'gold plating', this happens when local bureaucrats make up extra rules and say that they are necessary to comply with some EU directive (sometimes done to stop budget cuts or give more power to said bureaucrat). The EU has stated that they would make it a top priority to stop this practice but when the Dutch police did it and I complained about it concerning firearms marking rules not a single fuck was given while it when it was a Obvious case of said 'Gold Plating'.