MikeEve
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Reged: 06/02/2008
Posts: 18
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I see there's an "Early Day Motion" in Parliament asking to bring forward proposals for a registration requirement that holds air gun owners responsible for the use of air guns."
In fact, air gun deaths and injures are falling, and are now at their lowest for over thirty years !
AND registration doesn't save lives either - see "OF INTEREST TO EVERYONE IN THE UK" half-way down the page at http://psa.bizhosting.com/Interesting.html
The EDM is at -
http://edmi.parliament.uk/EDMi/EDMDe...84&SESSION=891
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Alastair_Balmain
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Reged: 18/08/2006
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Hi Mike,
Thank you very much for bringing that to out attention — it's the language of the motion that I find particularly annoying in that it calls on the Government to bring forward "proposals for a registration requirement that holds air gun owners responsible for the use of their air guns".
There's no presumption in there that airgun owners can be responsible for their airguns without Government interference. And of course the responsible majority are the ones who would sign up dutifully should such a scheme be brought about, while the unlawful minority wouldn't give two hoots.
I'd love to know how Joan Walley MP (appropriate name...) plans to bring such a scheme into being when the police can only just about cope with their current responsibilities with regard to firearms and shotgun licensing.
I'm sure others have an opinion — there may be some forum members out there who feel it might be worth lobbying your local MP to table a suitable amendment to this EDM which I think does absolutely nothing to address the crime it seeks to curtail.
Alastair.
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Alastair Balmain, Deputy editor, Shooting Times
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JohnS
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Reged: 23/07/2008
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I couldn't help noticing the air gun registration discussion. Here in the not-quite-relevant environs of Nova Scotia (and, indeed, across Canada) any air gun with a muzzle velocity in excess of 500 fps is categorized as a "firearm". That means it cannot be acquired without a government-issued firearms acquisition certificate, and cannot be held or used without proof of registration. These jolly circumstances resulted some years ago subsequent to the death of a young girl behind a shop counter at the hands of an illegal immigrant holding a fully automatic and equally illegal firearm. This ghastly business occurred in the riding of the federal attorney general of the time, a wholly urban gentleman who probably had trouble distinguishing a field of barley from a soccer pitch. Net result was that farmers and sport gunners just had to be punished...and it trickled down to air guns as well. British sportsmen really need to get onto this Walley business--the thin edge of the wedge and all that. Good luck!
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555db555
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Reged: 15/06/2008
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the thin edge of the wedge and all that.
johnS, what do you mean hear by thin end of the wedge?
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