Pest control. Hunting. Vets are allowed to have pistols to put down animals.
That's three.
Poll: UK Gun Laws
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Pest control. Hunting. Vets are allowed to have pistols to put down animals.
That's three.
I think gun clubs should be the ones to store and keep safe all member's owned firearms. If gun clubs cannot afford to operate in terms of cost and/or space requirements to facilitate storage of all members guns, or cannot come up with a membership program which would help finance this, then gun clubs should close down and be gone with. Maybe people could rent more guns provided by the actual gun club rather than use their "own". I don't really care.
I don't have issues with farmers owning them for pest control if they are stored as they legally should be and are regularly subject to the checks we do in the UK. That's it though, farmers, who have regular reviews to show there is still a pest control requirement to own one. I can't think of anyone else that needs to own one on their own land.
I don't have issues with farmers owning them for pest control if they are stored as they legally should be and are regularly subject to the checks we do in the UK. That's it though, farmers, who have regular reviews to show there is still a pest control requirement to own one. I can't think of anyone else that needs to own one on their own land.
Not entirely, I'm sure there is a way it could work if enough resources are utilised.
Potentially.
You do know how much some fire arms are worth?
I dunno off the top of my head the laws in Scotland but reminds me of my dad's friend who used to have an estate/farm near Blairgowrie - vermin hunting rifle just stashed behind a sofa, shotgun cartridges on the side table, etc. TBH though his dogs were more of a danger than the firearms.
Not at all. We have emergency plumbers, emergency car recovery, emergency you name it... so why would this not be feasible?
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I work with out of ours emergency contractors every night, they are not fast they will often be hours away from any site, they will always arrive and get the work done but its not a simple case of you make the call and they are there within the hour unless they are close by. They will often be attending all throughout the night to various places across their designated regions.
This wont work in a situation where you need immediate response on site with fire arms. Its too slow to deal with the sort of issues people have to deal with on farms and large conservation areas. Add in the additional requirement to be carrying firearms in a vehicle which will need to be designed to store them safely and it just wont work.
This wont work in a situation where you need immediate response on site with fire arms. Its too slow to deal with the sort of issues people have to deal with on farms and large conservation areas. Add in the additional requirement to be carrying firearms in a vehicle which will need to be designed to store them safely and it just wont work.
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What more humane way is there to kill them than shooting them with a rifle? Same goes for deer. Deer traps are horrible things which will leave an animal in agony until it chews its own leg off, dies of thirst, or is killed by whoever checks the traps (eventually).
Crossbows are regulated by the Crossbow Act 1987. To require a license for one would be rather ridiculous given that they are technology invented in Ancient China and Ancient Greece. I made one from scratch (firing steel pointed bolts with a range of over 100 metres) when I was a 13-year-old. Any adult could knock one up in their shed, it isn't rocket science! It is already illegal to have one in a public place. Besides, crossbows of >150lbs draw weight have a very slow rate-of-fire. A lot of the cheap ones are of the low-powered pistol grip type which look scary but are nothing like as dangerous as a FAC firearm.
The case you cite was incredibly rare. They don't have the rate-of-fire to be of much use to a spree-killer in a typical mass-shooting scenario and anyone using one for that purpose at long ranges would have to be extremely skilled/experienced with it. Also, these bows are large and so very difficult to conceal which makes them less useful to criminals/spree-killers.
Something legal that is a lot cheaper, has a higher rate-of-fire and is far smaller and so easier to conceal is a high-powered lead ball bearing firing catapult. I had a childhood friend who made one which produced 60 ftlbs of power. (That is equivalent to a .22 short cartridge.)
Rather than looking for more things to ban, perhaps the answer is to address the crisis in this country's mental health service which means that in many areas psychotic people have to wait for over a year to see a psychiatrist!
Please expand, you haven't said much more than 'nuh-uh'.
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Well for one, we’re not talking about a dodgy boiler or flat tyre, some farmers have to deal with injured animals in severe pain. They need euthanising very quickly. Waiting for a vet to come out just keeps the animal in needless suffering
Don't spell it out, given their posting history they can't possibly be ignorant of the reasoning.