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    New Law Affecting UK Airgun Owners - 10th February

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    Although serious incidents are rare, there have been cases in recent years where children have got hold of carelessly stored airguns that have resulted in severe injuries and even deaths. We want to do everything in our power to keep the risk of such incidents to an absolute minimum.
    Your air guns must be more deadly than the ones over here. I can't say I have ever heard of a death or serious injury as a result of an airgun incident, short of the police shooting someone with one.

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    Careful, "You'll shoot your eye out"(A Christmass Story).
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    guys,

    You never shot a Benjamin .22 with 10 pumps behind it. Would definitely drop small game, with a round ball and a lucky shot, bring down a deer. Eventually.

    The euro air guns are really strong shooters. BSA made them up to .25 cal. They are the bomb for small game.


    Yeah, you don't want kids messing with them unles they have some education in small arms.

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    That's a fact Jon! They do take their air guns seriously, and I thought of the one I had when I read that.

    My dad bought me this Germanicon made .22 Cal pellet rifle when I was young and I bet it weighed more than a Garandicon.
    I had always shot targets tacked to my mom's wooden fence with my Daisy CO2 pellet rifle, but the first time I shot this thing it busted a big a hole in her picket fence! (Quick patch job ensued, and no more shooting at the fence!)
    It had a long lever down the right side that compressed a very heavy spring and with one crank it shot a lead pellet over 1100 FPS!
    (The scope came later after I found what the thing could do)


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    stencollector, Google Airforce Condor or Talon to see what is available in North America. Mine will easily give 1200fps with a fully charged tank and 15.8 grain pellets.

    My biggest problem with it is finding pellets that are soft enough to expand into the rifling but hard enough not to strip.

    I've killed raccoons with it up to 15 pounds (biggest one I've had a chance to shoot at) and a young coyote at 40 yards. Pellet exited the back side in both cases. The raccoon was almost point blank. It has accounted for marmots, on private property that were over 10 pounds and lots of rabbits and grouse. None required extra shots. The thing is a tack driver, right out to 50 yards. It is deadly on crows and magpies as well.
    There was a 45 calibre air rifle circulating the gun shows in BC for a few years. Beautiful thing it was. It was custom made and the builder used it for deer from a tree stand. I have no idea what the velocities were or how many high velocity shots were available from the under barrel reservoir. I do know the pellets it fired were home cast out of soft lead and weighed around 150 grains. Even if the velocities were around 800 fps, any deer properly hit out to 50 yards would go down easily and stay down.

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    a police officer in NZicon was shot in the back of the neck with an air rifle last year and killed in the line of duty.

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    They are limited to 12 ft-lbs here (and 6 for pistols). A lawyer of my acquaintance pointed out last week that if a under-eighteen year-old burgles your house and steals your air gun, it's quite likely you will be the one who ends up being charged, for not securing it. He'll probably get a caution.

    Scotland is now taking powers to register airguns, and they'd like to ban them altogether.

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    Wow. Are guys serious? Ban airguns, Register, Lol. I guess I would've been a 1st degree felon for giving my son his first one at 6 y/o a Daisy 1 pump. He then got an old Beeman and a Crosman 780 at 8 y/o. I probably would get life in prison for giving him a Marlin 25.
    How you guys live with such moronic stupidity. When the muslims take over Franceicon in a few years I hope they invade the island too. Then they will be asking"Where did our airguns go?"

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    Quote Originally Posted by 7998 View Post
    such moronic stupidity
    appears to be highly popular with many of our citizens. The only criticism Scots have of gun law is that it isn't nearly restrictive enough. SNP party's policy [outlined to the Cullen Enquiry] was 'confiscate all registered guns immediately, then require the owner to make out a case why he should be given it back.'

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