I know I'm a complete utter fanatic in all my hobbies and that I might have a screw loose, or maybe a few more, I'm aware of that.
You can still own guns in Austria, though the European Union in all its questionable glory fights teeth and claws to outlaw private ownership of firearms and pretty anything else that does not fit in their new twisted world order they're working so hard on. Their newest genius idea is a law that forbids private ownership of lead, a very obvious, cheap way rich on potential collateral damage just to ban ammunition that contains lead - which is about 99% of whats on the market.
I'm calling nonsense on that. There is a palpaple demand for stories about the nefarious rules of the common market, those things sell a lot of newspapers and allow people to collectively go 'hah ! I knew it' 90% turn out to be bull.
Of course that still leaves 10%.
There are a few EU directives on firearms ownership that apply to all member countries and they seem pretty reasonable.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overview_of_gun_laws_by_nation
http://www.loc.gov/law/help/firearms-control/eu.php
The EU is all about the money and European manufacturers if anything have the upper hand as a lobby group.