Opponents point out that no such firearm has previously been used during commitment of a terror attack in EU . Of 31 terror attacks committed in the EU in the years preceding the Commissions proposal , 9 were committed with guns , the other 22 with explosives or other means ( truck in Nice ) . Of these 9 , 8 cases made use of either illegally smuggled or illegally refurbished deactivated firearms ( for which the European Commission did n't enact any rules , despite being tasked to do so in the Directive No. 2008/51/EC , see above ) while during the 2015 Copenhagen shootings a military rifle stolen from the army , was used . '' ' Impact assessment ' '' The European Commission did n't present an impact assessment for the proposed amendment Directive . One was prepared by the Czech Ministry of Interior , according to which the main impacts of the proposed Directive amendment , if accepted , would be : The European Commission proposal , if adopted , would have the following effect : In the proposal , the European Commission suggested that the Amendment includes Article 10b , which would bind the Commission to issue common deactivation standards as it was ordered to do in the 2008 Directive ( see above ) and which the Commission issued on 19 December 2015 . Meanwhile , poorly deactivated firearms , alongside smuggling from third countries , became one of major sources of black market guns used by criminals and terrorists in Europe , having been used in 2015 Hypercacher kosher supermarket siege , France
2015 Hypercacher kosher supermarket siege
Hypercacher kosher supermarket siege
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