Scottish Law and New Cert

[tacfoley]

To help avoid it coming to UK we should highlight as many incidents of bad implementation, bad prosecutions, overloaded police forces that we can. It is no good just complaining on here.

Ignoring the possibly impending Scottish airgun problem/legislation, Wales and England still have the 6/12 ft lb law. Norn Iron follows the rest of the island of Ireland in needing a FAC for ANY air gun over 1 Joule.

Scotland, BTW, is STILL part of the UK - the Independence Referendum decided that.

tac

[Robo]

Ignoring the possibly impending Scottish airgun problem/legislation, Wales and England still have the 6/12 ft lb law. Norn Iron follows the rest of the island of Ireland in needing a FAC for ANY air gun over 1 Joule.

Scotland, BTW, is STILL part of the UK - the Independence Referendum decided that.

tac

Hi Tac,

You can ignore the legislation in Scotland, but respectfully I don't think you should...if you like the current legislation. If Air Riffle enthusiasts in England and Wales want to preserve the current regulatory regime, you should not ignore this or allow yourselves to sleep walk into new legislation. I'm assuming the majority would care. It's an incremental step that will undermine the legislation in England and Wales.

To be completely honest - I think the Air Riffle Industry has to take a big part of the blame. They have increasingly over the last 20 or so years adopted military design for marketing Air Riffles. If you look in any Air Riffle Mag these days, or on the net, there are plenty examples of what I'm talking about. It does not matter that most are under the 12 ft-lbs limit. To most people, these things look like automatic assault riffles...because they are meant to. So I'm not too surprised this has now happened in Scotland, and I know a few people in the Gun trade at the sales end that agree the design and marketing is partly to blame.

Might seem like a small thing, but I would think that BASC should be encouraging the manufactures to seriously tone down the military design. What on earth does black special Ops with beaver rails do for someone wanting to plink in the garden or go shoot some rabbits/Pigeons?

Google Black Ops Tactical Sniper Rifle .177. What on earth is the point of that? It's daft, dangerous, and does not even try and hide the fact that the industry is weaponising what is in fact a .177 break barrel air riffle.

It's bad practice and is scaring the public and thus legislators. Not exactly helping our hobby.

R

[Black Beard]

Do you think there is a market for a Scottish spring kit. Just pull the existing spring then insert new spring and guide. 180fps all the way to the target.

And/or glue a tiny transfer port restrictor in to the action.

They make the rules, we'll work around them!

[Craig Ross]

Google Black Ops Tactical Sniper Rifle .177. What on earth is the point of that? It's daft, dangerous, and does not even try and hide the fact that the industry is weaponising what is in fact a .177 break barrel air riffle.

It's bad practice and is scaring the public and thus legislators. Not exactly helping our hobby.

R[/QUOTE]

That Black Ops thing is mental! If someone called the cops that's exactly what might get you shot.