Car Plows Into Carnival Crowd in German City of Volkmarsen

Last week, Germany saw a shooter attack two locations in Hanau, killing eight and wounding five before being shot and killed by police. As night follows day, that resulted in calls for more gun control in a country with already strict laws governing civilian firearm ownership. Today, an unidentified man used a different weapon, a … Read more

The EU Wants the Non-EU Swiss to Enact Tougher Gun Control Laws

Go ahead, risk a little “EU tension” . . . What the EU wants: Under a Revised Firearms directive, a ban on weapons capable of rapidly firing multiple rounds Automatic and semi-automatic weapons would either be banned or heavily restricted Each owner of such a weapon, and the weapon itself, are known to police across … Read more

TTAG Daily Digest: Questions and Answers, Naming and Shaming and Changing Their Mentality

Questions and answers with the lawmaker who wants your assault weapons Question number one: how do you propose to come and get all of them? . . . Rep. Eric Swalwell, D-Calif., added a new wrinkle to the gun debate recently with a proposal to force Americans to sell off their so-called assault weapons — … Read more

EU Bureaucrats Continue Efforts to Disarm Lawful Gun Owners

Reader John Dingell III writes: Well, Jean-Claude Juncker still rules Europe. The EU’s Commission, Parliament, and Council have now reached an agreement to strangle gun owners across the continent in new tangles of red tape and regulations: After a year of discussions, the European Parliament and Council have reached a provisional political agreement on the Firearms … Read more