COMMUNICATION FROM THE COMMISSION TO THE COUNCIL AND THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT COM/2013/0716

This Communication is titled ‘Firearms and the internal security of the EU: protecting citizens and disrupting illegal trafficking’. The misuse of firearms, be it legally-owned civilian weapons or civilian or military weapons which have been illicitly manufactured or obtained, is a serious threat to the EU’s security from both an internal and an external perspective. This communication proposes an integrated policy for addressing this threat, through legislation, operational action, training and EU funding.