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joe wrote:Have any of the shooting organisations starting talking to the government yet for section one 22 pistols. ? We have proper Tory government Cameron is hunting man granted he is spineless through !

One aurgment could be said to them is that .22 pistols are already allowed on section one tickets abit with long barrels and a rod out back so they may as well have th em legal with a shorter barrel and no thing out the back ! As FAC holders are law abiding the concealment element is not going to happen as one can already cut down the long barrel on his lbp or on a shotgun


Also NI and the rest of Europe could be brought up

After the last massacre it was proved the gun crime by FAC holders was next to none

The only problem would be the media circus although they didn't seem to notice the evil LBP we were allowed.

The only other problem to bringing back proper Pistols is - Convincing the Wife I need a few thousand pounds for all the stuff I would want to buy.

joe wrote:Have any of the shooting organisations starting talking to the government yet for section one 22 pistols. ? We have proper Tory government Cameron is hunting man granted he is spineless through !

One aurgment could be said to them is that .22 pistols are already allowed on section one tickets abit with long barrels and a rod out back so they may as well have th em legal with a shorter barrel and no thing out the back ! As FAC holders are law abiding the concealment element is not going to happen as one can already cut down the long barrel on his lbp or on a shotgun


Also NI and the rest of Europe could be brought up

After the last massacre it was proved the gun crime by FAC holders was next to none

Joe- We have sent letters to all the relevant Government Ministers ( PM, Home Secretary etc) and asked other organisatons to do the same in addition to supporters. I understand that BASC and the CA did so.

We also often mention NI, and Europe but we continue to get the same standard response "we support shooting sports, no plans to review, public safety is the priority" and so on. However some MPs have been supportive of the idea of lifting a ban and even one or two Lords. So we are trying to encourage them to bring it up and gather support in Parliament but again we still need everyone to be contacting their MPs expressing their own support for it and showing there is a large unified movement out there.



Firearms UK does aim to be the organisation that champions gun ownership in the UK but at this stage we are still a little small which is why we really need the support of all progressive shooters.

One aurgment could be said to them is that .22 pistols are already allowed on section one tickets abit with long barrels and a rod out back so they may as well have them legal with a shorter barrel and no thing out the back

You can point that out, but you run the risk that bringing it to their notice, what they would see as a the loophole allowing LBP/s they could try and ban them as well. But the other choice is to do nothing which isn't a great option either.

ordnance wrote:

One aurgment could be said to them is that .22 pistols are already allowed on section one tickets abit with long barrels and a rod out back so they may as well have them legal with a shorter barrel and no thing out the back

You can point that out, but you run the risk that bringing it to their notice, what they would see as a the loophole allowing LBP/s they could try and ban them as well. But the other choice is to do nothing which isn't a great option either.

rock and a hard place then. At least actually doing something constructive is something.

Dromia:

ordnance wrote:

One aurgment could be said to them is that .22 pistols are already allowed on section one tickets abit with long barrels and a rod out back so they may as well have them legal with a shorter barrel and no thing out the back

You can point that out, but you run the risk that bringing it to their notice, what they would see as a the loophole allowing LBP/s they could try and ban them as well. But the other choice is to do nothing which isn't a great option either.

I sure the homeoffice would have updated the minster resonable as do acpo who hounded the labour administration in 2000 about lbr, 50 cal and semi auto 22lr and yet suprisely they didn't ban anything

Can't be bothered reading this thread. For the record though: the man's an arse.

SevenSixTwo wrote:Can't be bothered reading this thread. For the record though: the man's an arse.

And he talks out of it too.

The thread as wandered off topic as usual. But yes you are right the mans a arse but we all knew that all ready.

Alpha1 wrote:The thread as wandered off topic as usual. But yes you are right the mans a arse but we all knew that all ready.

gunlike

So what do we do now?