Whether further measures are needed on manufacturing standards to prevent accidental discharge of airguns or to prevent modification of airguns post-sale in order to increase their power.

how does that work when the rifle that killed Benjamin Wragge was supposedly a home made rifle ?


they are going after factory made airguns in my eyes with that statement .


"A 13-year-old boy was killed when a homemade air rifle held by a lifelong friend accidentally discharged and hit him in the neck, an inquest heard."

"Hayward said the weapon was not made by a commercial manufacturer. It was a .22 air rifle which had a telescopic sight and silencer, could be loaded with up to nine pellets without them being visible, had no safety catch, and could discharge without the trigger being pulled."

it was also over the 12ftlbs limit which the other had assumed was correct because the maker of the rifle said it was .


plus (1) a LOADED rifle was found in an (2) AIRING cupboard .

1 it should not have been left loaded an 2 there is strict guidelines on safe storage .

so airgun users are being penalised for people having no common sense or any idea on how to store a * firearm .

yes i know there will be other cases other than the Ben Wragge death but it still comes down to common sense.

*BASC chairman Peter Glenser, a barrister who specialises in firearms law, said: “In law, airguns are classified as firearms and are subject to all the criminal provisions of the Firearms Act.

“This is already a powerful penal statute and there is no need for further law. The solution has already been identified by government as education and enforcement.”