Interior Ministry prepares legal complaint over EU gun-ownership law

The Czech Interior Ministry has prepared a legal complaint against the European Parliament over the recently adopted law tightening gun-ownership norms in the alliance. The newly-approved legislation restricts gun ownership, notably by introducing tighter controls, reducing the number of cartridges for semi-automatic rifles to ten, and setting up an arms register. The legislation is seen as a means of fighting terrorism. The Czech Republic strongly opposed the move, arguing that terrorist acts are rarely committed by legally held weapons and protesting that the new norm will only hurt responsible gun owners and hunters. The Czech Republic cannot lodge the complaint until the norm comes into force which is approximately in six weeks’ time.