Shooting UK: Air gun registration ?

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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