Originally Posted by
TonyL
I seem to remember the laws then saying you could own one at 14 but had to be 17 to buy one.
Yes you could own one but also had to be supervised by someone older when shooting. Back in the early 80's I used to shoot in a couple of fields adjoining a car park of a busy railway station. When commuters came in, they often asked "after rabbitts ?", never any hostility
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