About the Home Office's new Firearms Laws consulation document:

http://www.homeoffice.gov.uk/docs3/c...n_firearms.pdf

I am preparing my response, amongst other things I will be asking for airguns power to be tested with a single standard pellet that is available to the public, so that people can set up their rifles legally with those pellets, without worrying about vindictive coppers testing them with lightweight Prometheus or heavyweight rabbit magnums and finding them over the limit that way.

I will also be requesting that airguns are no longer referred to as 'air weapons', this is a misnomer that has really got on my nerves over the years, since only about 0.03 per cent of airguns are used as weapons (if you apply the dictionary definition of the word 'weapon', which is "an object used to injure or threaten another"), even airguns that are used illegally are only very rarely used as weapons.

I really think that everyone on this BBS should write in asking for these things. What else would other people from this BBS be asking for?