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Czech government rejects EU directive on firearms

Xinhua, May 12, 2016 Adjust font size:

The Czech government rejected a draft EU directive on checking the acquisition and possession of firearms, Czech Interior Minister Milan Chovanec said on his Twitter account on Wednesday, adding the directive would lead to a loss of thousands of jobs in the country.

The Interior Ministry said in an analysis that representatives of the Czech Republic should be actively opposed to the draft directive "on all possible occasions."

Regarding the possible impacts of the changes, the ministry said they could pose a risk to the country's internal security and cause the loss of thousands of jobs.

It considers the threatening massive outflow of weapons, which have been legal so far, to the illegal sphere as a fundamental security risk.

It is impossible to expect the legal holders of arms to surrender the weapons which the directive would ban. It will lead a dramatical increase of the number of illegally possessed arms as those legal arms' holders will say the arms have been lost or stolen, noted the analysis.

According to the analysis, the proposals exclusively affect the legal possession of arms, not on illegal arms which are used in terrorist attacks. Enditem