Another stop on the constituency campaign tour took us on the 26th of July to the beautiful district town of Bad Dürkheim in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany, to meet with German EPP-MEP Christine Schneider.We visited one of the town’s oldest craft businesses, Waffen Walther. This traditional company was founded in 1815. The current owner and master gunsmith […]

After the European elections and while the EU institutions reshuffle their political personnel, we take the opportunity to meet members of parliament in their constituencies. On 12th July, AECAC Secretary General Peter Brass met with MEP Norbert Lins (EPP). The focus was on setting the course for European policy after the elections in June and […]

In conjunction with the German Gunsmith and Gun Trad Association (VDB), AECAC met on the 6th of June in Braunschweig, Germany. Our political guest was Lower Saxony’s MEP Lena Düpont (EPP), with whom we had been in regular exchange on EU topics such as the EU Firearms Regulation. In addition to a tour of the […]

At the annual general meeting on 1st March 2024 in Nuremberg, the debate focused on the European policy challenges of our industry and the realignment and modernization of the association’s statutes. At the same time, the association has appointed former long-time president Yves Golléty as honorary president at the IWA Outdoors fair. In the run-up […]