This rumour seems to come round every few months or so, usually with little or no supporting evidence.

I am old enough to remember lots of people thirty years ago winding themselves up that the introduction of the EU Single Market in 1992 would include the German 7.5 joule power limit.

I’m not saying it couldn’t happen, and certainly not that there aren’t pressure groups, media and MPs who’d be in favour of it. But I really don’t think that there’s a secret plot by our reptilian overlords and their metropolitan liberal stooges to licence airguns any time soon.