Brits to "hand-in" airguns

For those of you who have skeet or trap shooting buddies who pooh-pooh your pro-gun effprts, call their attention to:

"The MPs called for a general review of the Firearms Acts, shotgun controls to be strengthened and for police to have the power to revoke shotgun licences for people they believe have become unsuitable The changes would bring controls over shotguns closer to those covering more powerful Section One firearms such as rifles."

It would also be a good argument for those who think licensing all gun owners is no big thing.

Then this closing gem:
"We want licensing of all firearms which have the potential to kill – this will mean licensing most of the air weapons now in circulation."
Remove "air" from the above and all hammers, screwdrivers, axes, etc. will be next.

The people in the UK have been neutered.



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"The Commons Select Committee on Home Affairs was alarmed after learning an estimated 10,000 cats and 2,000 people are injured each year by airguns, often fired by children."
Estimated by whom, one might ask. And how badly injured ("Subject suffered a small bruise.") (And yes, I know airguns can blind or kill.) And as for the cats, whose yard were they in at the time? (Nomex suit going on now.)

One of the earlier news stories on this said that this step was being taken in part "to discourage future generations of shooters." Imagine a government doing such a thing. Maybe they think if none of their "subjects" knows how to shoot, there will be "peace in our time."

You can't go wrong making fun of the Brits. (Apologies in advance to Mike H.) Between this and the story last week about coppers in pubs arresting people for things they said, you have to wonder if anyone is working on the real problems over there.

I wonder if England is becoming like a petri dish, where we can observe the effects of years and years of social experimentation and evolution. The Blair regime promises an interesting future for this tiny island, once ruler of the world's largest empire.
 
Ledbetter, that's devolution, not evolution. Evolution implies they are moving to a higher form of existence. I think the peak was reached somewhere around 1941-1945. It's apparently been a devolutionary slide since. Maggie wasn't able to reverse the slide on her own.
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The ultimate purpose of gun control is to render people incapable of the ultimate form of protest and resistance to tyranny.


[This message has been edited by JimR (edited April 21, 2000).]
 
"We will fight them on the beaches, in the streets, from behind every rock and tree....."

Winston Churchill must be spinning in his grave......

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When guns are outlawed, I will be an outlaw.
 
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