Thank you Mr D T Fletcher [Portland Oregon], I have enjoyed this debate. Obviously in USA attitudes to guns/weapons are very different than in UK. What are your opinions? I'll add my 'tuppence worth' - An airgun is not just a weapon but potentially a deadly weapon, if I shot you in the eye with a 12ft lb .177 target air rifle, the pellet would pass through your eyeball & bounce around inside your scull resulting in death or at best you would be cabbaged. So airguns should be treated with great, safety & respect as all weapons should.