It was by the comfortable majority of 491 to 178, with 28 abstentions, that the European Parliament voted on Tuesday 14 March to approve the inter-institutional agreement on the firearms directive, but it was not without a final, very hostile, salvo from a large number of MEPs in the debate ahead of the vote.
In a press conference, rapporteur Vicky Ford (ECR, UK) welcomed the outcome of the vote, seeking to calm passions by pointing out that full account had been taken of the situations of...