Quote from: gitano on May 03, 2024, 06:10:27 AMI have the exact same wish and hesitancy.Now Sir, I won't have you bad mouthing our great nation. You'll steal my thunder...
The FPE restriction, while stupid and egregious, at least "makes sense", in the context of the British authority's restricting firearms. To illustrate what I mean, our "shotgun only" hunting states are equally illogical. You can't use a "rifle" to hunt with, but you CAN use a shotgun, with a slug, from a shotgun WITH A FULLY RIFLED BARREL that will cast that projectile at least 300 yd. If people in GB were allowed to use UNLICENSED pneumatic firearms of ANY FPE, then they would make them powerful enough to kill people. GB citizens CAN possess pneumatic arms with FPEs greater than 12, BUT, they have to be included on the owner's LICENSE.
I have always thought a .25 caliber PCP would be a great gun to have 'around'.
Paul
Shotgun cartridges - You can have as many as you want (if you have a Shotgun certificate which many people do, far more than Firearms cert holders). But you don't have to store them in a locked steel cabinet, or a wooden one, or a locked one of any kind. You can keep them in the bedside cabinet or your mantlepiece, for all they care. Go figure.
But enough of this, if we are going to have a thread about illogical and tyrannical laws, that really deserves its own complete board!