Originally Posted by gingernut
Funny you should mention that, in France you can buy a black powder pistol or rifle as long as its based on a pre 1900 design and you're over 18!!
All those pretty Uberti pistols!
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Funny you should mention that, in France you can buy a black powder pistol or rifle as long as its based on a pre 1900 design and you're over 18!!
All those pretty Uberti pistols!
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banning them hasnt stopped all the shootings ect so it was a bit of a waste
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The Birmingham shootings that prompted the ban were carried out with a Mach 10 machine gun.
Odd that banning Brococks didn't help.
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On the day of the ban I called brocock and asked the man about the brocock pistols been converted to fire live .22 lr, he said that to his knowledge only one brocock pistol had been converted and the owner tried to sue brocock as the pistol "exploded" in his hand. he then told me that a lot of the Birmingham police and fire brigade used the pistols and they were dismayed at the ban and the letters and petitions by the police to the government explaining why banning brocock tac guns would do nothing.
It was a few years later I read a news paper artical and it gave real numbers to the percentages used in gun crime figures, in the end it worked out that only 2 brocock pistols had been used in crime and neither had been converted
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Did flare guns get banned around the same time?
Was watching a vid the other day and see you can get a drop in barrel to convert a flare gun to fire bullets!
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Flare guns have been sec 1 in the UK for years (unless an exempt calibre). Inserts for available ammunition also 'on ticket' here.
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The dealer who sold that gun has just been sentenced to 16 years inside.
Other members of the Gang suppliers share 50 years between them.
The shootings were in 2003!
Can't see any mention of Brococks in the newspaper reports!
Last edited by gingernut; 27-11-2015 at 04:41 PM.
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Well, thanks to a kind member on here i have a bottle fed charger in need of some tlc.,trouble is, i need at least one tac before i can test it!
Who's got some spare?
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Well, thanks to a kind member on here i have a bottle fed charger in need of some tlc.,trouble is, i need at least one tac before i can test it!
Who's got some spare?
I noticed some time ago a company called Tawnado was still supplying TAC's new from stock, so I assume they aren't illegal to buy? Just owning the guns is.
http://www.tawnadoairguns.com/air_cartridge.php
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The TACS are fine to own as you say. New ones are readily available, but I'm tight!
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