Hand in your Daisy, future shooters in England

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More British Gun Rules Backed

LONDON (AP) -- A cross-party committee of lawmakers recommended Thursday that Britain further tighten its gun laws to make airguns subject to the same restrictions as other weapons and prohibit children under 14 from handling all firearms.
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Britain has some of the strictest gun laws in the world. Handguns were banned after a gunman shot and killed 16 kindergarten children and their teacher in Dunblane, Scotland,in 1996.
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An estimated 4 million airguns are in circulation around Britain, accounting for 70 percent of the firearms held legally, the report said.

Figures for 1998-99 showed that nearly two-thirds of all recorded firearms offenses were linked to air weapons, according to the report. Most of those offenses involved
criminal damage, but nearly 2,000 also involved injuries to people, it said.
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But John Hoare, secretary of the National Small Bore Rifle Association, said the proposed regulations will hit ''those who
are law-abiding and cause no mischief, damage or injury to anyone.''

''They will not affect criminals,'' he said.

The recommendations also failed to please the antigun lobby. The Gun Control Network criticized the report as not going far enough, saying it would ''do little to discourage future generations of shooters.''
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Yes, for the sake of the Crown, let's do all we can to "discourage future generations of shooters." Bloody Bahstards. :mad:
 
Airguns are just about the only “shooting” sport left to the British which they can take in to the field. Having knuckled under on the firearm issue some time ago, I seriously doubt if they stand a chance of stopping this.

Skyhawk
 
One subjects comments in an interview:
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Q: Are you a vegetarian?

A: I'm not really. I'm not a peace-sign waving musician. I don't do meditation before I go on stage. I'm an ex-hand gunner. My hobbies were shooting pistols. But that's not possible anymore in the UK. My hobby now is shooting with vintage cameras.

I don't kill animals because I don't really eat them much. I suppose I could go out and hunt a broccoli. I could catch an aggressive cabbage. But I'm neither the latter day hippie idealist nor the macho gunslinger. I'm a regular guy, in between the extremes.
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The interviewee was Ian Anderson, lead singer for Jethro Tull.

The progression in the UK was pretty simple:
1) Registration - all guns
2) Restrictive licensing
3) Restrictive/cumbersome laws on storage & transport
4) Confiscation - all handguns
5) Next...Who knows for sure, but I bet they're going to do something with that list of shotgun owners & rifle owners.

Does it sound just a bit familiar?
 
Tough for them - if you followed the UK Debacle, you will note that most gun owners in the UK, including handgunners based their arguments on their "sport". Their gun rags, for the most part, mocked the USA for being blood thirsty and argued against arming their police.

There were some stand up folks but most weren't. Thus, this is the next step.

Most gun owners in the USA are in similar mind state, I'm afraid.
 
I have some friends who have just returned from living in England for several years.

They told me that many people over there think that the country is slowly coming apart and the push for gun control is a desperate attempt by the ruling bodies to retain control.

Now all I have to do is figure out how to get out of Australia.
 
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