Highlights - Acquisition and possession of firearms: plenary debate and vote - Committee on the Internal Market and Consumer Protection

The European Parliament voted on the text agreed after four rounds of interinstitutional negotiations on the Firearms Directive. The revised text includes an initial political agreement on the medical review provisions, the categorisation of high-capacity semi-automatic weapons, the provisions on high capacity magazines, those on collectors, museums and target shooters, and those on deactivation. The debate and vote took place during the plenary sitting of 14.03.17.