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22 Mar 2010, 4:46 pm

So with the significant exception of Ascan, the Brits in this thread don't seem to be so much denying the degree to which the government intrudes on their lives as defending it...


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22 Mar 2010, 11:31 pm

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I should have been a little more clear there, I should have said Airsoft gun instead of BB gun, I think of the two fairly interchangeably since they're roughly equivalent under the law here. What I found so shocking is that in order to purchase an airsoft gun you have to belong to a "skirmishing" club and jump through a whole serious of legal hoops in order to qualify. Not to mention that the law on BB guns actually considers any mechanism that uses a contained gas source, e.g. a CO2 cartridge to be a firearm and subject to at least 5 years imprisonment, when over here we're talking a strictly over the counter item. I even know how this came about, it was progressive restrictions following the 1997 handgun ban as people were using these airguns to commit crimes, and the UK government applied it's customary solution of restrictive legislation, which leads directly to the now moot OP article concerning dogs.


I know that back in 1991 that an air gun which ran off bottled CO2 required a gun license but the rules were changed some time before about 1996 to make them over the counter. I view a BB gun as something very different to an airsoft gun. In my book a BB gun fires steel shot (normally 4.5 mm steel balls).

Some parts of the UK press are far from honest all the time. There are ways to play the system, while if the Sun published an article about me saying that I murdered Jill Dando, I could sue for libel with great ease.

But if the sun ran an article in which they claim that an aspie conspiracy exists of closet aspies who are moles within british organisations (goverment, university, medical profession, etc etc) then there is very little that can be done as such a poorly defined group can not sue for libel.

An example of a false statement which a news paper made releates to Hillsborough, correct me if I am wrong but nobody has been able to sue the "sun" over this.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hillsborou ... ontroversy


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