Petition to bring in Airgun licensing in
http://www.cats.org.uk/news/new-camp...irgun-attacks?
How much impact do you think it will have ?
Up here in Scotland it has been a shambles with a tenth of the population of England.
Bill
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Petition to bring in Airgun licensing in
http://www.cats.org.uk/news/new-camp...irgun-attacks?
How much impact do you think it will have ?
Up here in Scotland it has been a shambles with a tenth of the population of England.
Bill
Last edited by Bigbill; 22-03-2017 at 11:41 AM. Reason: Chance URL
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Link won't open, but if it's the same as I saw on facebook, I'll say the same thing.
Bringing in licensing will not stop cats getting shot. The people who will apply for licences are NOT the people who shoot cats. The cat shooters are scumbags with no common decency it regard for the law, so they won't apply for one anyway
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Did think after it came in up here that it wouldn't take long for it to be talked about in The rest of the UK
Hopefully they don't bring it in for you guys
Daz
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Looking at the CPL site, it looks as though the petition has been up for 10 months to get 16,000 signatures.
So this method is not going to work for them.
It is already very illegal to shoot cats.
I, like many airgunners, also love cats and would prefer that people who work to improve the lot of animals, work with people who shoot, to hold people who shoot animals illegally to account.
Get caught and you are almost certain to:
Get your name and picture in the local rag.
Hefty fine.
Lose all your guns.
Become a prohibited person on a lot of databases.
Become a social pariah.
May have difficulty finding employment.
So I would urge the CPL to change tack and work with us.
Edit: Actually, the petition is ticking up at quite a rate, so I may be wrong about it being 10 months old.
Last edited by clunge; 22-03-2017 at 11:46 AM. Reason: New info.
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URL now working
Bill
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My mums cat was poisoned by some scumbag with antifreeze, i should start a petition to get it banned.
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The thought process behind this proposal is completely flawed.
Suppose that all air gun owners are licensed, and a cat gets shot near 99 Acacia Ave. It was shot with a .22 pellet.
Within a five mile radius of where the cat was shot there are seven licensed air gun owners, five of them have .22 calibre rifles.
So, we have five suspects, except we know and the coppers know that it is not licensed owners who shoot cats, so after wasting time and money inspecting the rifles and ammunition owned by the five people and finding that none of them own or use Bulldog pellets of the type removed from the cat, the Police are exactly nowhere in finding the moron that shot the cat.
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deliberate or a leak from under a vehicle?Originally Posted by junglie
happened near my mums. old car sitting on the drive way. leaking coolant. cat then gets it into its system and dies at the vet.
was seen nearby the old car due to the hedge and the birds nests in the hedge.
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Can't see a petition and the article is nearly a year old.
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it is ongoing as it has just come into my inboxCan't see a petition and the article is nearly a year old.
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Take one instrument of destruction away from the scumbags, and they will move on to something else. 50lb crossbows from the toy aisle of the Range, catapults or bows and arrows.
Their imagination and stupidity know no bounds...
Too many guns, or not enough time?
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Got a link, can't see anything on that page.
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Can't see that actual petition having much impact but I'm pretty sure the government here will bring licensing in at some point for 2 reasons.
1 its an earner from those that do apply
2 its an easy prosecution for those that don't. If for any reason a copper comes across an airgunner and they have no licence - game over. If a house is searched for whatever reason and unlicensed airguns are found, regardless of the reason for search - also game over.
If folk don't want to apply for licences that's their choice but they know the risks.
Licensing airguns will not prevent any crime.
Unfortunately anyone not having a license is taking a big risk
B.A.S.C. member
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If it comes in it would do as much good as the 97 handgun law did to stop gun crime , criminals and morons take no notice of laws
Rod
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