Commissioner Malmström’s campaign against gun violence

clivej · 23-04-2014 3:31pm #1

This is of interest to all firearm owners. Email I got today

Dear Sir, Madam

I assume that you have already noticed Commissioner Malmström’s campaign against gun violence in Europe and also read the COM(2013)716 presented to the Council and the European Parliament on 21.10.2013.
We believe the Communication contains manipulated data, misleading information and defamatory statements that criminalize legal gun owners.

Commission’s actions speak for themselves:
•    an on-line survey, in which 81 000 citizens strongly opposed further action on EU level regarding the firearms legislation, was dismissed shortly afterwards by the DG Home as not “representative of a cross-section of the general public” and not “scientifically based”
•    poor knowledge of the Directive 91/477/EEC, as amended by Directive 2008/51/EC, the Group of Experts and Mrs. Malmström have demonstrated. Either addressing issues that are already regulated or interfering where even the Firearms directive allows the EU Member states, in accordance with the principle of subsidiarity, some initiative.
•    Mrs. Malmström’s statement made at the Conference - "Fight against illicit trafficking in firearms. Where do we stand" held on 19 November 2012 in Brussel: ”Legally owned firearms in the EU continue to feed the illegal market.”

In cooperation with the GunLex organisation, around 3000 legal gun owners in Czech Republic have lodged a complaint with the European Ombudsman for suspected data manipulation by the European Commission in the COM(2013)716 presented to the Council and the European Parliament on 21 October 2013.
The complaint does not only summarize Mrs. Malmström’s malpractices, but also requests immediate withdrawal of Commission’s document COM(2013)716. Furthermore, it requests internal investigation into Commissioner’s work that would preferably lead to disciplinary action for serious misconduct and abuse of power that was vested in her by the citizens of the EU.
The elections to the European Parliament will take place next month. Let’s send the European Commission a clear message that misrepresenting facts and ignoring undesired figures in order to justify an EU action at all costs, will not be tolerated.
This complaint is also written in English and we would therefore be very glad, if gun owners in your country would join us too, as we aim to attract (media and public) attention with these complaints in order to prevent Mrs. Malmström becoming Commissioner again and DG Home bureaucrats keeping their present jobs.

Please, publish this initiative on your websites and call on your fellow gun owners to send a complaint as well. Together we have the power to change things for better, please do not waste this opportunity. Let the public and the media know, that the Commission manipulates data in order to overrule the principles of subsidiarity and proportionality, I am sure that many European citizens will reflect this during the EP elections.
The Complaint to European Ombudsman together with Guide – How to lodge a complaint on European ombudsman’s web portal, are available on the GunLex websites:

http://www.nejlepsivolba.cz/stiznost_EO/guide.htm

I would like to personally thank you for all your effort in this matter.

Kind regards

Marta Kyrsova
Czech gun owner

Chiparus · 23-04-2014 6:07pm

link not working?

yubabill1 · 26-04-2014 10:41am

done - made up my own

Part 2 - Against which European Union (EU) institution or body do you wish to complain?

European Commission

Part 3 - What is the decision or matter about which you complain? When did you become aware of it? Add annexes if necessary.

Data supplied for COM(2013)716 presented to the Council and the European Parliament on 21.10.2013

Following a survey of 81000 EU citizens, I feel the data of the survey has been selectively and subjectively interpreted:

1. an on-line survey, in which 81 000 citizens strongly opposed further action on EU level regarding the firearms legislation, was dismissed shortly afterwards by the DG Home as not “representative of a cross-section of the general public” and not “scientifically based”

2. poor knowledge of the Directive 91/477/EEC, as amended by Directive 2008/51/EC, the Group of Experts and Mrs. Malmström have demonstrated. Either addressing issues that are already regulated or interfering where even the Firearms directive allows the EU Member states some initiative, in accordance with the principle of subsidiarity, .

Part 4 - What do you consider that the EU institution or body has done wrong?

It has selectively and subjectively interpreted the survey of 81,000 EU citizens who responded and quoted single contributors, whose views aligned with the body's while ignoring the contributions of citizens who may feel differently.

Part 5 - What, in your view, should the institution or body do to put things right?

The body should re-assess the survey data in an objective manner and make their findings public.

Part 6 - Have you already contacted the EU institution or body concerned in order to obtain redress?

No

Part 7 - If the complaint concerns work relationships with the EU institutions and bodies: have you used all the possibilities for internal administrative requests and complaints provided for in the Staff Regulations? If so, have the time limits for replies by the institutions already expired?

Not applicable

Part 8 - Has the object of your complaint already been settled by a court or is it pending before a court?

No

Part 9 - Please select one of the following two options after having read the information in the box below:

Please treat my complaint publicly

Part 10 - Do you agree that your complaint may be passed on to another institution or body (European or national), if the European Ombudsman decides that he is not entitled to deal with it?

Yes

tac foley · 26-04-2014 3:59pm

Good post yupabill1 - thank you for taking the trouble to make it.

'We must all hang together, else we will assuredly all hang separately'
Benjamin Franklin

tac

yubabill1 · 27-04-2014 5:54pm

Cheers, guys.

Just done some quick calcs - we will hear a lot in the run up to the local elections on May 23rd about opinion polls involving 800-1000 people and that this is considered a representative sample of the 4million or so population.

This sample size works out at one fortieth of one percent.

Given the EU has approx. 500million people, a similar representative sample (by numbers alone) would be 125,000 respondants.

This survey had 81,000 respondants.

That's too many to ignore in anyone's language.

tac foley · 28-04-2014 3:29pm

Considering that these people - that is to say, those who 'run' the EU - seem to be clever enough to organise the lives of almost a billion very different people, you'd think that by now they would have realised that there is a special category of people who commit crimes with firearms, however they may have acquired them.

They even have their own descriptive name - they are called 'criminals'.

They have chosen to operate outside the rules of law, no matter how many EU Commissioners stand up and get shouty about their illegal activities and the uses to which they put their illegally-acquired firearms.

By pointing the finger at the law-abiding citizens who jump through manifiold hoops, and suffer all kinds of intrusions into their personal lives to PROVE that they are trustworthy enough for their government to permit them to own firearms, they have shown that they do not listen to the very people who put them in the position where they can exercise their ill-chosen 'judgement' on the rest of us.

tac

Grizzly 45 · 07-05-2014 1:47pm

Nothing new here.Just a better article on this lunacy from Brussells.:rolleyes:

http://www.all4shooters.com/en/articles/law/2013/EU-proposed-gun-ban/

yubabill1 · 07-05-2014 6:16pm

Your complaint has been submitted to the European Ombudsman. We will send you an acknowledgement of receipt within a few days.

NB - Please note that this e-mail was sent from a notification only e-mail address. If you wish to contact technical support, please use the link below:

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Date: Saturday, April 26, 2014 11:40:53 AM CEST
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Complaint about maladministration

Grizzly 45 · 26-06-2014 12:00pm

A good comment on this from Guntrader.co.uk this month.
In light of Frannie Fitzs comments in the Dail recently on "EU legislation" ..She might consider getting a second opinion on the fact that not everything and every opinion in Brussels is gold.

Swede not to the taste of many
Guntrader News 5:52pm, 20th May 2014
We may be hearing a lot in future about and from Cecilia Malmström. She is the Swedish Commissioner of the Directorate General for Home Affairs, for which think Home Secretary of the EU and you won’t be far off. And you won’t be far off either in thinking that Ms Malmström is eager to gather unto herself more power, after all that’s what she is there for. And one of the ways she is intent on doing this is by seeking to ratchet up firearms controls (which do not actually form any part of her current remit) across the EU.
To this end she has wheeled out that old canard, that legally held guns are being diverted by theft or other means into the hands of criminals, so she and her officials have summoned to their cause a lot of data and then wilfully misinterpreted it (something, alas, true of Governments everywhere). In the case of the UK this was achieved by Ms Malmström’s assertion that 63% of the 2,534 firearms stolen in the UK in 2010-2011 were taken from private homes. Leaving aside speculation as to where the other 37% were stolen from (police and military armouries possibly), many will think that 2,534 out of the estimated two million guns owned privately ain’t bad anyway.
Well they are going to think it is even better when they learn that Ms Malmström’s people forgot to point out that around half of that 63% total was made up of air rifles and that the remainder included airsoft, BBs and starting pistols. In all probability then the number of shotguns and rifles stolen from homes in the UK in that year amounted to no more than 0.003% of the total in private hands, around 800 guns or so.
But figures like that wouldn’t suit Ms Malmström who, like all her fellow Commissioners, has serious form when it comes to looking the other way when things don’t suit. For example, last year the EU published a report about corruption in EU member countries ahead of spearheading a new initiative aimed at eradicating the £100 billion it is estimated to cost. Ms Malmström was among the key Eurocrats voicing her determination to support the initiative.
Given her fondness for using data from 2011 to make her case, she should be reminded that in that year auditors estimated the levels of fraud committed in Brussels itself (which is where our girl works) at one million (yes, one million) Euros every day. And what’s more, as at 31 December 2011 more than 400 Brussels-based EU officials were under investigation for corrupt practices. We suspect that if it comes to a choice most of us will be happy to take our chances with the firearms thieves.

meathstevie · 26-06-2014 2:28pm

Of course, everyone's worst nightmare: the international terrorist with the sawn off single barrel Baikal.

What the hell happened to the EU ? It started with the noble objective of preventing the Frogs and the Gerries slaughtering each other with same regularity as a world cup tournament and it's ending up like a club to facilitate taking from the poor to give to the rich and to curb civil liberties.

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