The European Commission proposed a package of measures aimed to " make it more difficult to acquire firearms in the European Union " on 18 November 2015 . President Juncker introduced the aim of amending the European Firearms Directive as a Commission 's reaction to a previous wave of Islamist terror attacks in several EU cities . The main aim of the Commission proposal rested in banning B7 firearms ( and objects that look alike ) , even though no such firearm has previously been used during commitment of a terror attack in EU ( of 31 terror attacks , 9 were committed with guns , the other 22 with explosives or other means . Of these 9 , 8 cases made use of either illegally smuggled or illegally refurbished deactivated firearms while during the 2015 Copenhagen shootings a military rifle stolen from the army was used . ) The proposal , which became widely known as the " '' ' EU Gun Ban ' '' " , would in effect ban most legally owned firearms in the Czech Republic , was met with rejection : Ministry of Interior published in May 2016 its Impact Assessment Analysis on the proposed revision of directive No. 91/477/EEC . According to the Ministry , the main impacts of the proposal , if passed , would be : Despite reservations of the Czech Republic and Poland , the Directive was adopted by majority vote of the European Council and by first reading vote with no public debate in the European Parliament . It was published in the Official Journal under No . ( EU ) 2017/853 on 17 May 2017 . Member States will have 15 months to implement the Directive into its national legal systems . The Czech Government announced that it will lodge a suit against the directive in front of the European Court of Justice , seeking postponement of its effectiveness as well as complete invalidation , and did so on 9 August 2017
2015 Copenhagen shootings
2015 Copenhagen shootings
Gun law in the Czech Republic