"The Air Gun as a Serious Weapon" by H Marks

[scooter48]

I have to disagree with you, my friend. I've just eaten my dinner and there's no way the knife I used was a weapon.

Airguns may look like weapons, but that doesn't mean they are weapons, although it certainly suits some people to blur the distinction.

A match airgun is not designed to cause bodily harm or damage to anything other than a paper target.

Whether a device used to kill small mammals and birds can ever be classified as a weapon (assuming we are not talking about a Girandoni) is open for debate. The word is more properly reserved for human targets.

all guns are designed for killing whether air or firearm.That is their function.

[Garvin]

all guns are designed for killing whether air or firearm.That is their function.

Nonsense!

A match airgun is not designed to cause bodily harm or damage to anything other than a paper target.