FabSwingers.com forum: Airgun owners given six months to licence weapons

By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago

Scotland only

But you can guarantee this law will flow down south and be taken up in the rest of the UK

It will be a criminal offence to have an air weapon without a licence or permit from 31 December 2016.

Under the new legislation approved by Holyrood last June, anyone found guilty of the new offence will be fined or face up to two years in prison.

Remember the good old days when you got home from School, picked up your air gun and headed into the woods or up the hills to play, no more good ol days for the kids of today.

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By *olgateMan
over a year ago

on the road to nowhere in particular

They get more practice on COD these days

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Remember the good old days when you got home from School, picked up your air gun and headed into the woods or up the hills to play, no more good ol days for the kids of today."

Were they really the good old days?

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By *olgateMan
over a year ago

on the road to nowhere in particular

Only if you survived them

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I feel so oppressed right now because I can't purchase a weapon without declaring it.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I've been shot with an air rifle. It fucking hurt.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"I feel so oppressed right now because I can't purchase a weapon without declaring it.

Spud gun with acid laced spuds

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"I feel so oppressed right now because I can't purchase a weapon without declaring it.

Spud gun with acid laced spuds"

Sounds like my lunch before those giant ant aliens came and took my tentacles away.

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By *igeiaWoman
over a year ago

Bristol

"I feel so oppressed right now because I can't purchase a weapon without declaring it.

Spud gun with acid laced spuds"

I bloody loved my spud gun. It also worked with windfall apples if they hadn't got too mushy.

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By *ny1localMan
over a year ago

READING

In some ways, yes,they were.Catapults,pea shooters,home made bows+arrows..all great fun,and very few serious injuries.But then we weren't so focused about H+S...we just had fun

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Bloody health and safety tossers, we wont be able to fart without a licence soon.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Bloody health and safety tossers, we wont be able to fart without a licence soon."

They won't put a license on that - but give them half a chance and they'll tax it...!!!

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Licensing airguns? As an American I laugh at you all

-Courtney

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By *inkyandperky555Couple
over a year ago

swansea

Is this in uk if so where is the info on it

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By *eerobCouple
over a year ago

solihull

Going to be a party pooper here, I think it's an excellent idea, I think they are uneccesarily dangerous, a lot of wildlife will be able to give a sigh of relief, and hopefully pain and suffering to humans will be reduced... And mindless criminal damage to Windows etc reduced. Great idea.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

ah the good old days without all this health and safety nonsense.

My Rambo knife in one pocket, air pistol in my other. Ninja throwing knives, nunchucks.

The day a lad in my class shot the supply teacher in the back of the head with an air rifle. The other lad who got a detention for taking a knife into school.

Such good old days. I'm so sad my children don't get to experience that kind of fun.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Remember the good old days when you got home from School, picked up your air gun and headed into the woods or up the hills to play, no more good ol days for the kids of today.

Were they really the good old days?

I wouldn't have thought kids playing with air guns is a good idea any day

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By *inky-MinxWoman
over a year ago

Grantham

"Bloody health and safety tossers, we wont be able to fart without a licence soon."

You can't at mine already

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Going to be a party pooper here, I think it's an excellent idea, I think they are uneccesarily dangerous, a lot of wildlife will be able to give a sigh of relief, and hopefully pain and suffering to humans will be reduced... And mindless criminal damage to Windows etc reduced. Great idea. "
plus the amount of lead left about polluting the place. I am also fed up ne seeing dead birds, shot because of arseholes who think its macho.

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By *mstillere2Man
over a year ago

middleport

defo best answer so far so many innocent creatures so relieved now plus too the american licence or not your firearms may be gone soon if the world is lucky for a change

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

agree

some ******* shot my cat with an air gun about 5 years ago

cost me nearly £2000 at the vets to save him, had to have part of his stomach, bowels and intestines removed, dont get me wrong he's worth every penny but to think i spent all that money for some morons idea of fun did piss me off

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By *inky-MinxWoman
over a year ago

Grantham

"some ******* shot my cat with an air gun about 5 years ago

Yikes

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"I feel so oppressed right now because I can't purchase a weapon without declaring it.

It's ok, you still can.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I sometimes buy cheap beer in cans. Then my son and i shoot them with some of my air weapons.(we enjoy the way they spray) Or even our archery equipment. Its all good

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"I sometimes buy cheap beer in cans. Then my son and i shoot them with some of my air weapons.(we enjoy the way they spray) Or even our archery equipment. Its all good

In my area it's cats,foxes,pigeons and passers by who are the targets

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"I sometimes buy cheap beer in cans. Then my son and i shoot them with some of my air weapons.(we enjoy the way they spray) Or even our archery equipment. Its all good

In my area it's cats,foxes,pigeons and passers by who are the targets"

Blame the parents, not the weapons. You still have to be over 18 to purchase, and store responsibly.

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By *riskynriskyCouple
over a year ago

Essex.

"I sometimes buy cheap beer in cans. Then my son and i shoot them with some of my air weapons.(we enjoy the way they spray) Or even our archery equipment. Its all good

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By *riskynriskyCouple
over a year ago

Essex.

Rabbits, pigeons and squirrels make good eating...

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"I sometimes buy cheap beer in cans. Then my son and i shoot them with some of my air weapons.(we enjoy the way they spray) Or even our archery equipment. Its all good

Cherry tomatoes at 10 metres is also satisfying.

gotta these days I'm finding the pistol more satisfying than the rifle. I tried a pcp rifle at my local Range. It was boring. So accurate on a bi-pod, where's the challenge. However, instinctive archery is where it's at. Don't aim, just shoot. Tap into your inner caveman. Just *know* you'll hit the target.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"In some ways, yes,they were.Catapults,pea shooters,home made bows+arrows..all great fun,and very few serious injuries.But then we weren't so focused about H+S...we just had fun

Agreed. Still got my old BSA meteor in the loft. Always came in good for shooting rats in and around the local canal. I also remember as an 8 year old throwing "spears" at each other (garden bamboo canes, sharpened at one end with cigarette packets as "flights" on the back end). Did get one in the eye which needed three stitches.....other than that no harm done!

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

yeah think they should be licensed but there's more head cases with knifes and more people are killed or injured with knifes.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"yeah think they should be licensed but there's more head cases with knifes and more people are killed or injured with knifes."

Exactly. Time to license kitchen knives. Far more dangerous.

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By *mstillere2Man
over a year ago

middleport

totally agree about the head cases with knives and they are way too easy for anyone to get hold of

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By *olgateMan
over a year ago

on the road to nowhere in particular

"I sometimes buy cheap beer in cans. Then my son and i shoot them with some of my air weapons.(we enjoy the way they spray) Or even our archery equipment. Its all good

At last someone has found a use for cheap beer

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"yeah think they should be licensed but there's more head cases with knifes and more people are killed or injured with knifes.

Exactly. Time to license kitchen knives. Far more dangerous."
Anyone can get a knife but not everyone can get access to an airgun

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Indeed.

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By *astie10Man
over a year ago

Guildford

ok but before they give us a licence cost how about stopping teenages bring live round hand guns to school i know of a school in whitechapel london has got serches when the little darlings come in the building now

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

" ok but before they give us a licence cost how about stopping teenages bring live round hand guns to school i know of a school in whitechapel london has got serches when the little darlings come in the building now "

think they did that law already

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By *ub_liminalTVTV/TS
over a year ago

Belfast

"Scotland only

But you can guarantee this law will flow down south and be taken up in the rest of the UK

It will be a criminal offence to have an air weapon without a licence or permit from 31 December 2016.

Under the new legislation approved by Holyrood last June, anyone found guilty of the new offence will be fined or face up to two years in prison.

Remember the good old days when you got home from School, picked up your air gun and headed into the woods or up the hills to play, no more good ol days for the kids of today."

What practical function do they serve beyond recreational?

They're routinely misused to inflict injury or antagonise... Long overdue law.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

The airguns of today are not really like the airguns I used to fuck around with... Mind you I was 10 so that's probably a good thing as I used to shoot my mates for a laugh (only when they were wearing big baggy rain coats)... I'm not a total pleb

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By *imiUKMan
over a year ago

Hereford

How the hell is this going to work?

There is no historic record of who airguns have been sold to, so are they expecting people to voluntarily come forward and declare them?

Or does it just apply to the purchase of new airguns?

I learned to shoot with one and spent hours as a kid shooting rabbits, squirrels, rats and so on.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

What practical function do they serve beyond recreational?"

Vermin control where the use of poison is not suitable.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I really think they need to start with longer sentences for people caught carrying a knife ie 5 to 10 years maybe they would think twice about it,why else would anyone carry a knife apart from stabbing someone?

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"I really think they need to start with longer sentences for people caught carrying a knife ie 5 to 10 years maybe they would think twice about it,why else would anyone carry a knife apart from stabbing someone?"

Certain knives are perfectly legal to carry in the UK, I carry one nearly all the time and use it for all manner of jobs. What people forget is a knife is just a tool its only the morons out there who make it a weapon.

Also certain air rifles already require a full firearms licence, I have two (legally).

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Yeah I know but a teenager carrying a kitchen knife at 2 in the morning something not right about that

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Also certain air rifles already require a full firearms licence, I have two (legally)."

Do you manage to get "full power" pellets ok?

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Yeah I know but a teenager carrying a kitchen knife at 2 in the morning something not right about that"

That wouldn't be legal in any scenario. The blades have to be 3" or less and have a non-fixed or non-locking blade.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Also certain air rifles already require a full firearms licence, I have two (legally).

Do you manage to get "full power" pellets ok?"

Ely Wasps work just fine...

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I hope this is a joke. As gun laws to own a section 1 high power air gun is really ott. I have normal powered one and a lovely collection. But if this come they will all go. Silly thing is. That is is easier to obtain a shotgun licence. Which I think we all know which is more dangerous.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Oh it's really going ahead up here in Scotland then will carry on to the rest of the U.K.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Also certain air rifles already require a full firearms licence, I have two (legally).

Do you manage to get "full power" pellets ok?

Ely Wasps work just fine...

I use them in my old Webley "senior", and Original Diana.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

....and still no licencing for dogs....

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"I hope this is a joke. As gun laws to own a section 1 high power air gun is really ott. I have normal powered one and a lovely collection. But if this come they will all go. Silly thing is. That is is easier to obtain a shotgun licence. Which I think we all know which is more dangerous. "

A high powered air rifle has the potential to kill (even a low powered one does, that's why they're used for pest control). Anything with a spring energy above 12lbsft currently requires a section 1 one of mine is around 28lbsft and the other around 22lbsft and they both have massive muzzle energy. That being said, a legal one at around 11.5lbsft could penetrate the skull if it hit in the right (or wrong) spot.

As a gun owner I personally think proper regulation and control is a good thing as it reduces the risk of them being sold to idiots who like to shoot people stood at bus stops or kill/maim beloved family pets.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Also certain air rifles already require a full firearms licence, I have two (legally).

Do you manage to get "full power" pellets ok?

Ely Wasps work just fine...

I use them in my old Webley "senior", and Original Diana."

I have a Webley Junior that belonged to my dad and a Diana model 27 that also belonged to him. They both still work (in a fashion) and have huge sentimental value to me as they're what he taught me to shoot with.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"....and still no licencing for dogs...."
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And for once it's not the fault of the governing body... Everybody sensible with a dog wants to bring back the dog licence!

But again that will only work if it's enforced properly, just like the gun licence

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By *inCity BluesMan
over a year ago

London

"Scotland only

But you can guarantee this law will flow down south and be taken up in the rest of the UK

Good, about time. Perhaps they can ban crossbows while they're at it too.

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By *adystephanieTV/TS
over a year ago

glos

"Licensing airguns? As an American I laugh at you all

-Courtney "

Ooops another mass shooting in the USA just another day i guess

we can laugh too

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

It had to happen eventually I suppose ..I own air rifles,it will be interesting to see how this pans out.

It's funny how there's no mention of bows or crossbows..which are more deadly than shotguns and air rifles with a longer range. The English longbow I have is so basic,but awesome.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Also certain air rifles already require a full firearms licence, I have two (legally).

Do you manage to get "full power" pellets ok?

Ely Wasps work just fine...

I use them in my old Webley "senior", and Original Diana.

When i was doing vermin control at my local dairy, I'd used the shot in my rifle. Noticed a "customer" next to my foot and used my holstered 'senior', shot him in the back from 24 inches...he looked at me after the pellet had bounced off, flicked me the V's and ran off....

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"It had to happen eventually I suppose ..I own air rifles,it will be interesting to see how this pans out.

It's funny how there's no mention of bows or crossbows..which are more deadly than shotguns and air rifles with a longer range. The English longbow I have is so basic,but awesome."

Lets not mention... The awesomeness of the hallowed bow...

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

i was shot by a guy with an air rifle when i was 11. the pellet was in my face one inch under my eye for 7 years .

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By *S RachaelTV/TS
over a year ago

Lowestoft

Are airguns a problem?

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Does this mean I'll need a gun cabinet bolted to the floor for my logun?

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By *ig1gaz1Man
over a year ago

bradford

But again that will only work if it's enforced properly, just like the gun licence"

too many airguns out in the market already theres no way to police it

last time I took mine out was down in the quarry safe shooting at the targets at the quarry wall

as long as you do it safe it shouldnt matter about a license

cross bows are just as bad and so is the hand held one

the catapult is just as bad

dont see any license for those do you ?

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Are airguns a problem?"

I'd say no...the vast majority of airgun owners are responsible people...but like with anything else..the minority spoil it for everyone.

The laws we have already are strict,with some serious jail time if broken.It's the judges that choose not impose them.If you look up the law regarding airguns you will be surprised at how strict they are.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

That is why we need out of Europe. They are all moves to erode our sovereignty and in the end their goal is new world order, one world government and to control the masses.

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By *espectful chap 99Man
over a year ago

Preston

I'll give mine up if I have to Licence it... I never use it, its just there if I get urge...

Not worth the hassle for police visits, etc

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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago

Its no joke, if you live in Scotland and own a air gun you will have 6 months to apply for a license or alternatively hand in the gun to police

for us with firearms certificates nothing changes until we have to renew then we add on the air gun to our certificates

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I think having safe places to shit would go a long way to help with air gun ownership, I searched and searched for a club in Birmingham, but choices were limited, I used to shoot as a teenager, mostly field Target shooting, and it was good for ne, it taught me to respect guns, and to be responsible, while all my mates were taking shits at rats on the old railway (no longer in use at that time) my rifles would stay safely locked up at home, Target shooting is a great sport, but responsibility is sadly lacking in a lot if air rife owners, a lot if these guns aren't even safe to use because they are poorly maintained, and before they changed the law, just left laying around in cupboards or under beds for anyone in the house to get their hands on.

If you love air rifle shooting, then why would you have a problem getting a licence? It's just another bit if paperwork, its not like it takes up a whole lot if your time.

And as for our American friend, who laughed at our gun laws, I bet the people of columbine are laughing right along with ya, but please forgive the people of dunblane if they don't share the joke

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"I think having safe places to shit would go a long way to help with air gun ownership, I searched and searched for a club in Birmingham, but choices were limited, I used to shoot as a teenager, mostly field Target shooting, and it was good for ne, it taught me to respect guns, and to be responsible, while all my mates were taking shits at rats on the old railway (no longer in use at that time) my rifles would stay safely locked up at home, Target shooting is a great sport, but responsibility is sadly lacking in a lot if air rife owners, a lot if these guns aren't even safe to use because they are poorly maintained, and before they changed the law, just left laying around in cupboards or under beds for anyone in the house to get their hands on.

If you love air rifle shooting, then why would you have a problem getting a licence? It's just another bit if paperwork, its not like it takes up a whole lot if your time.

And as for our American friend, who laughed at our gun laws, I bet the people of columbine are laughing right along with ya, but please forgive the people of dunblane if they don't share the joke"

You could always use a bathroom like everybody else.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Seeing as with a few basic mod's you can increase the power of an air gun to something which can easily kill someone, I think it's a good idea.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Seeing as with a few basic mod's you can increase the power of an air gun to something which can easily kill someone, I think it's a good idea."

How would licencing stop that?

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

The nanny state riseth again!

Not everyone who has an air gun shoots animals.

Some of us make our own targets.

So if they're licensing air guns, does this mean you have to have them in a locked cupboard like a real gun?

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By *riskynriskyCouple
over a year ago

Essex.

My air rifle is locked in an old gun cabinet that no longer meets licencing laws. I also have a trigger lock...

If I have to licence my air rifle, I will go the whole hog get a new cabinet and get a couple of rifles and a shot gun and add larger quarry to my list...

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

The laws are already there...they just don't enforce them...so what use is a license going to be..just a waste of time and paper.You have a license to drive a car..but it doesn't stop some people acting like dickheads and it never will.

I'm like kinky butler,and shoot HFT and FT.It's good to see whole families taking part in the sport together.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Seeing as with a few basic mod's you can increase the power of an air gun to something which can easily kill someone, I think it's a good idea.

How would licencing stop that?"

It won't stop it, nothing will. It just makes it harder for people to do it illegally. I remember being able to walk into a fishing tackle shop and buying an Ox square section spring for my HW88 (about 20yrs ago). Fitting that £12 spring upper the power of that rifle to 15lbsft, that's 3 above the limit and technically meant I required a section 1 licence.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Scotland only

But you can guarantee this law will flow down south and be taken up in the rest of the UK

It will be a criminal offence to have an air weapon without a licence or permit from 31 December 2016.

Under the new legislation approved by Holyrood last June, anyone found guilty of the new offence will be fined or face up to two years in prison.

Remember the good old days when you got home from School, picked up your air gun and headed into the woods or up the hills to play, no more good ol days for the kids of today."

All this does is cause extra cost to legitimate owners and is just another stealth tax. I have owned and shot competitively air rifles all my life and have never injured anyone. Gun crime is committed by criminals not enthusiasts so there will still be unlicensed weapons thus achieving nothing but extra money for the government. If that is what it takes to prove your hobby is legitimate then so be it but don't try and make it sound legit as it's bullshit.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

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By *riskynriskyCouple
over a year ago

Essex.

"Seeing as with a few basic mod's you can increase the power of an air gun to something which can easily kill someone, I think it's a good idea.

How would licencing stop that?

If you know what you are doing a lot of air rifles can be over powered with household tools and a few odds and sods laying around your house or shed...

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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago

"My air rifle is locked in an old gun cabinet that no longer meets licencing laws. I also have a trigger lock...

If I have to licence my air rifle, I will go the whole hog get a new cabinet and get a couple of rifles and a shot gun and add larger quarry to my list..."

You wont have to License it at this moment as its only Scotland where owners must apply for a license within 6 months

how crazy is it that you must now license these air guns!!

consider this

I can have primers, cases, bullet heads & powder all sitting around or can purchase at ease

It is only when you have assembled and made your ammo (re-loads) that you need to account for them and lock away

How many here who re-load actually list a couple of hundred rounds they have just made up

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"That is why we need out of Europe. They are all moves to erode our sovereignty and in the end their goal is new world order, one world government and to control the masses."
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You know I used to be dead against that whole one world government shit but just lately

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Bloody health and safety tossers, we wont be able to fart without a licence soon."

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By *ust RachelTV/TS
over a year ago

Horsham

I was shot with an air pistol by a mate who was messing around, now I am partially sighted in one eye. It stopped me joining the forces, as I had just passed the entrance exam to go in the Navy as an articifer.

So registering an air pistol to me is a good thing. Also as a paintballer and airsoft player, I think it is a brilliant idea to register them.

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over a year ago

"Bloody health and safety tossers, we wont be able to fart without a licence soon.

Not really safety, when you see some air guns they look like real guns. I would definitely register mine if I had one. Ok then the police know who has one, but at least it is an added bit of protection for the owner.

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"Seeing as with a few basic mod's you can increase the power of an air gun to something which can easily kill someone, I think it's a good idea.

How would licencing stop that?

If you know what you are doing a lot of air rifles can be over powered with household tools and a few odds and sods laying around your house or shed..."

This is still an irrelevant argument. Licencing won't stop that. It's like saying people won't speed because they have a driver's license. Or "pssst did you know if you put better spark plugs in your car it might have more power?" so what?

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"Seeing as with a few basic mod's you can increase the power of an air gun to something which can easily kill someone, I think it's a good idea.

How would licencing stop that?

If you know what you are doing a lot of air rifles can be over powered with household tools and a few odds and sods laying around your house or shed...

As a rule of thumb.... All legislation is there for the bottom 5% not the other remaining 95%.... Such is life

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By *isdirtygirlCouple
over a year ago

somewhere out there

"I sometimes buy cheap beer in cans. Then my son and i shoot them with some of my air weapons.(we enjoy the way they spray) Or even our archery equipment. Its all good

In my area it's cats,foxes,pigeons and passers by who are the targets

Blame the parents, not the weapons. You still have to be over 18 to purchase, and store responsibly."

I grew up in Africa. It spent most boyhood afternoons with an air rifle and later a .22 in the bush. I never remember anyone taking one into school to cause trouble. Yes once or twice one of us got a pellet in the arse accidentally but they were no worse than the big thorns you stood on barefoot in the bush. Most of my mates were similarly armed. None of us would have even have considered shooting pets, Windows or teachers. The reason for that was because if we did anything like that you knew you would get one hell of a hiding if your parents found out.

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By *riskynriskyCouple
over a year ago

Essex.

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By *riskynriskyCouple
over a year ago

Essex.

"I was shot with an air pistol by a mate who was messing around, now I am partially sighted in one eye. It stopped me joining the forces, as I had just passed the entrance exam to go in the Navy as an articifer.

So registering an air pistol to me is a good thing. Also as a paintballer and airsoft player, I think it is a brilliant idea to register them."

Unfortunately you can't legislate for idiots...

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By *riskynriskyCouple
over a year ago

Essex.

"Seeing as with a few basic mod's you can increase the power of an air gun to something which can easily kill someone, I think it's a good idea.

How would licencing stop that?

If you know what you are doing a lot of air rifles can be over powered with household tools and a few odds and sods laying around your house or shed...

That's what we were saying...

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Sod em away..I've just bought another air rifle.

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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago

"Sod em away..I've just bought another air rifle."

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over a year ago

"Seeing as with a few basic mod's you can increase the power of an air gun to something which can easily kill someone, I think it's a good idea.

How would licencing stop that?

If you know what you are doing a lot of air rifles can be over powered with household tools and a few odds and sods laying around your house or shed...

I never said it would stop it. I said it would make it more difficult for people to do illegally.

P.s. putting better spark plugs in your car just means you've put better spark plugs in your car, there's no more power.

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By *riskynriskyCouple
over a year ago

Essex.

"Seeing as with a few basic mod's you can increase the power of an air gun to something which can easily kill someone, I think it's a good idea.

How would licencing stop that?

If you know what you are doing a lot of air rifles can be over powered with household tools and a few odds and sods laying around your house or shed...

I never said it would stop it. I said it would make it more difficult for people to do illegally.

P.s. putting better spark plugs in your car just means you've put better spark plugs in your car, there's no more power."

It wouldn't really make it more difficult to modify them, unless the police test fired every air rifle...

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Any other pistol fans on here? I really enjoy my WEIHRAUCH HW40.

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over a year ago

"Seeing as with a few basic mod's you can increase the power of an air gun to something which can easily kill someone, I think it's a good idea.

How would licencing stop that?

If you know what you are doing a lot of air rifles can be over powered with household tools and a few odds and sods laying around your house or shed...

I never said it would stop it. I said it would make it more difficult for people to do illegally.

P.s. putting better spark plugs in your car just means you've put better spark plugs in your car, there's no more power.

It wouldn't really make it more difficult to modify them, unless the police test fired every air rifle..."

I'm sure the person carrying out your inspection could fire one shot through a chronograph without too much hassle.

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over a year ago

"Seeing as with a few basic mod's you can increase the power of an air gun to something which can easily kill someone, I think it's a good idea.

How would licencing stop that?

If you know what you are doing a lot of air rifles can be over powered with household tools and a few odds and sods laying around your house or shed...

I never said it would stop it. I said it would make it more difficult for people to do illegally.

P.s. putting better spark plugs in your car just means you've put better spark plugs in your car, there's no more power.

It wouldn't really make it more difficult to modify them, unless the police test fired every air rifle...

I'm sure the person carrying out your inspection could fire one shot through a chronograph without too much hassle."

How often is the inspection...mind you, the last Springer i bought fires between 11.7 and 12.4 .

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over a year ago

"Seeing as with a few basic mod's you can increase the power of an air gun to something which can easily kill someone, I think it's a good idea.

How would licencing stop that?

If you know what you are doing a lot of air rifles can be over powered with household tools and a few odds and sods laying around your house or shed...

I never said it would stop it. I said it would make it more difficult for people to do illegally.

P.s. putting better spark plugs in your car just means you've put better spark plugs in your car, there's no more power.

It wouldn't really make it more difficult to modify them, unless the police test fired every air rifle...

I'm sure the person carrying out your inspection could fire one shot through a chronograph without too much hassle.

How often is the inspection...mind you, the last Springer i bought fires between 11.7 and 12.4 ."

Different brands of pellets get different chrono readings.plus what ever grain your using.

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over a year ago

"Seeing as with a few basic mod's you can increase the power of an air gun to something which can easily kill someone, I think it's a good idea.

How would licencing stop that?

If you know what you are doing a lot of air rifles can be over powered with household tools and a few odds and sods laying around your house or shed...

I never said it would stop it. I said it would make it more difficult for people to do illegally.

P.s. putting better spark plugs in your car just means you've put better spark plugs in your car, there's no more power.

It wouldn't really make it more difficult to modify them, unless the police test fired every air rifle...

I'm sure the person carrying out your inspection could fire one shot through a chronograph without too much hassle.

How often is the inspection...mind you, the last Springer i bought fires between 11.7 and 12.4 ."

For a section 1 its at least yearly. Last year in had two surprise inspections, probably due to the calibre of one of my rifles (.338).

If your springer fires at 12.4 you'll need a section 1 firearms certificate and cabinet.

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"Seeing as with a few basic mod's you can increase the power of an air gun to something which can easily kill someone, I think it's a good idea.

How would licencing stop that?

If you know what you are doing a lot of air rifles can be over powered with household tools and a few odds and sods laying around your house or shed...

I never said it would stop it. I said it would make it more difficult for people to do illegally.

P.s. putting better spark plugs in your car just means you've put better spark plugs in your car, there's no more power.

It wouldn't really make it more difficult to modify them, unless the police test fired every air rifle...

I'm sure the person carrying out your inspection could fire one shot through a chronograph without too much hassle.

How often is the inspection...mind you, the last Springer i bought fires between 11.7 and 12.4 .

For a section 1 its at least yearly. Last year in had two surprise inspections, probably due to the calibre of one of my rifles (.338).

If your springer fires at 12.4 you'll need a section 1 firearms certificate and cabinet."

Have to get it tested on a hot day.