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[Peter Laidler]

In short Ridolpho, we have a policy of not pursuing and punishing the wrongdoer even if they can find them, but just, well......, banning everything slowly but surely. So said, the Country is awash with weapons. But if you don't know where the unlawful ones are you just clamp down harded and harder on the lawful ones until you end up with a pure hotchpotch of bits of legislation that.............

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[PrinzEugen]

until you end up with a pure hotchpotch of bits of legislation that.............

...... (to helpfully finish off)...... means people competing for their country in events like .22 pistol shooting have to train abroad.

As I said earlier with regards to police targeting illegal guns - community relations and potential disorder backlash means they generally don't do it. Meanwhile the law abiding and easy targets get more and more squeezed. As this debate shows this community is packed with good intentions - the whole point of this thread is an intention to uphold the law. This part of the law makes it harder for law abiding gun enthusiasts to maintain their guns. But it goes to show the level of lawbreaking or even stretching within this community is almost nil - and still they keep introducing more legislation - more lately the extra stuff on deacts.

[Aussie48]

In short Ridolpho, we have a policy of not pursuing and punishing the wrongdoer even if they can find them, but just, well......, banning everything slowly but surely. So said, the Country is awash with weapons. But if you don't know where the unlawful ones are you just clamp down harded and harder on the lawful ones until you end up with a pure hotchpotch of bits of legislation that.............

And silly me thought it was only in Australia that this happened

[Robert303]

Be very cautious of any seizure figures. Replicas seized by what was H.M. Customs now UK Border Force are included in Firearms seizures. Any police or UK Borders force seizures are just as likely to include air guns, replicas, DAs, as it's all about numbers and publicity. On a slightly different tack 5 or 10 years ago police would never have tipped off press about a search warrant let alone allowed live TV coverage as they have just done with a well known personality who was abroad at the time the warrant was used.