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Meanwhile, stabbings in London are at their highest level in 6 years and the overall UK rate is up 21% in the 12 months ending in Sep 2017. You go UK police!



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But hey Uk Bobbies will confiscate your Leatherman multitool as a WMD.

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I 'm very sad for the country. It was great and the majority of it's people are fine folk getting the screwing of their lives by their government.

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The UK needs a Donald Trump.




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The UK didn't get here overnight. Their gun control came in phases and I think it started in the early 1900s.
 
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The UK didn't get here overnight. Their gun control came in phases and I think it started in the early 1900s.


Indeed it did. Until the early 1930's, you could walk into a post office, buy a 'gun license' for five shillings [about a dollar] and then go into a gun store and buy a Thompson...

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tac, forgive me if I’m out of line, but...in past years when members of this forum made disparaging remarks about firearms ownership and use laws in the UK, haven’t you come to the defense of your country’s laws, indicated that the criticism was unjustified, and listed firearms that you own and the events you attend with them? Offhand, I cannot think of another forum member from the UK.


Not at all, Sir.

I have NEVER defended the mostly ridiculous and draconian firearms laws in this country, mainly because I suffer from their application just like any other legal gun owner. I DO own a number of firearms, and I DO shoot them all regularly [in fact, I'm leaving in a few minutes for my Wednesday session].

What I DO have to do is to put up with them, and live them, since neither I nor any other legal shooter can change them one jot, or take up another sport.

So please carry on making disparaging remarks - after all, I hope that my responses as to how gun law operates over here would serve in a small way to clarify them without excusing them in any way.

Best

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I guess that 1776 thing was a good plan!



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I guess that 1776 thing was a good plan!


Best thing you ever did, Sir. If I'd been alive at the time I'd have been right there with you.

If there's one thing that gets me all hissy and steaming it's a bully, and the UK government sure ticks all the boxes.

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The Sun has set...

Yes it has...apparently many years ago.


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tac, forgive me if I’m out of line, but...in past years when members of this forum made disparaging remarks about firearms ownership and use laws in the UK, haven’t you come to the defense of your country’s laws, ...

No. What he's done is corrected inaccurate representations of the country and it's laws.



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Hey tac,

What happened to all those firearms after the laws changed? Did they have to be turned in or something? Tommyguns arent cheap, at least not here in the US.

James

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quote:
Originally posted by TigerDore:
The UK didn't get here overnight. Their gun control came in phases and I think it started in the early 1900s.


Indeed it did. Until the early 1930's, you could walk into a post office, buy a 'gun license' for five shillings [about a dollar] and then go into a gun store and buy a Thompson...

tac


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So the grim, totalitarian UK portrayed in the movie Children of Men isn't too far off then, eh?


 
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tac, forgive me if I’m out of line, but...in past years when members of this forum made disparaging remarks about firearms ownership and use laws in the UK, haven’t you come to the defense of your country’s laws, ...

No. What he's done is corrected inaccurate representations of the country and it's laws.
yeah, thanks


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Originally posted by TigerDore:
The UK didn't get here overnight. Their gun control came in phases and I think it started in the early 1900s.


Indeed it did. Until the early 1930's, you could walk into a post office, buy a 'gun license' for five shillings [about a dollar] and then go into a gun store and buy a Thompson...

tac


The way it should be except it was five shillings too much. Eek
 
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