The BS proposal was presented in committee in Brussels today with questions/comments from representatives.
While we won't see them getting an NRA membership anytime soon, the proposal was met with great skepticism and a number of reps confirmed the massive amount of letters and emails they got from their constituents.
The guy from the Commission, some scummy lying Frenchman (shame on my country), openly admitted that the focus was legally-owned firearms and not illicit firearms (which will be addressed through another directive/process).
Man I got a man-crush on the Finn rep who essentially told the commission to fuck off. No homo (or maybe just a little)
Anyway most reps said the proposal was unclear and vague, that they wondered why hunters and gun owners associations weren't represented, that the change should not create criminal out of thin air among.
Some of the reps wondered why there was no clear impact study for the proposed changes.
Some asked what the point was to ban deactivated firearms once they are... well... deactivated especially if there's a common and strong deactivation technical standard.
The commissioner at the end of the session seemed all pissed that they weren't buying his shit and gave us the typical lies you'd expect from an rabid anti-gunner: blah blah terrorists uses legal weapons (though I haven't seen their French firearms permits and target shooting club memberships), blah blah "if you think that target shooters should be allowed to own semi-auto ARs/AKs, you have a problem", ...
The fight is only beginning and we'll have to educate our reps
The only other rabid antigunner was another Frenchman, a green (aka watermelons = green on the outside, red inside) rep.