Quote Originally Posted by Terry D View Post
The most authoritative 'resource' we have is the home office and it has stated that SA is prohibited. Should we ignore that resource, and would you consider your FEO better informed than the Home Office?
With the greatest of respects Terry....

The home office are the correct people to go to, absolutely right. Thankfully way back in 1997 the home office released HOC 68/097, which states none FAC semi auto airguns were not supposed to be made illegal which was supposed to make it clear.

For years since then airguns like the LP50 have been sold up and down the country (as well as a whole host of other semi auto airguns with a rifled barrel).

There are emails from HO employees (civil servants?) who deal with this legislation as their job saying its legal.

FEO's up and down the country say its legal.

But organisations such as the GTA and AMTA are screaming at the top of their lungs that semi auto airguns are illegal... but the problem is other than a law which is to be amended at the next opportunity according to HOC 68/097, there is no evidence what so ever as it stands that these airguns are illegal.

Can you provide any sort of source of a Home Office press release or document released after HOC 68/097 which states a U turn on what HOC 68/097 states?

If you do that, the debate is over.

I appreciate you are probably sick to the back teeth of this, but if you do that I cannot see how anyone can argue with you and if you are correct then its in the best interest of us all that it happens ASAP.

Now I appreciate you think some of the conspiracy theories are mental, but the Home Office have admitted there was a meeting between the HO and the GTA since this issue has arisen, for which there were no minuets taken. You must surely appreciate that this looks incredibly suspect... an organisation which is against SA airguns, which on their own website state they take place in lobbying the government, meeting with the HO. Are we supposed to believe that this discussion was not about semi auto airguns?

Since this meeting it stands that the same HO employee who was saying they were legal has changed his stance... Very strange.

To the untrained eye where there is no more information available to us, it does appear that the GTA have lent on the HO to get these airguns banned, and when you consider this is a trade organisation that does not represent the shooters its not that hard to see why they would be motivated to do this.

Just my thoughts, its not meant with any disrespect.