5.52mm vs 5.51mm pellets - What Gives?!

[SmokeyJoe]

Too bad you guys get intercoursed on firearms-related components.  

Paul

Just as egregious is the near minuscule FPE limit imposed on airguns over there.
I'd like to have a .25 cal PCP myself.  something that will push a lead pellet to 700-900 FPS.
But I struggle with justifying the cost of the compressor.

Ha, I moan about this all the time, but yesterday I found out something new...

In Germany  (a nation in the Union of Soviet Socialist European Republics) - their air rifle limit is HALF the limit here in the UK, at just 6 FPE. I nearly fell off my chair when I read that. Europe has gone to the dogs, and they've all been put down.


PS I have seen some very fun looking .50 cal PCPs, only in the land of the free of course, but at least our government lets us watch (drool) over youtube videos from your neck of the woods. (For now anyway)

[SmokeyJoe]

I have the exact same wish and hesitancy.

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

Now Sir, I won't have you bad mouthing our great nation. You'll steal my thunder...

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!

[gitano]

I wasn't being sarcastic. I meant it when I said the GB rule on 12FPE made sense in the context of GBs other gun laws, and our shotgun-only hunting laws are silly. But... I agree with  the point that discussion of silly/tyrannical gun laws would require a entirely new firum.

Paul

[Jamie.270]

Be sure and let me know when you guys start this new forum.
As I have much to say on that topic.

But for now, you'll just have to settle for my sig line.