At the risk of upsetting people from the UK on here, I am afraid to say that the general populace has been silent on many matters of concern for too long, having spent many long periods away from the UK I was always shocked on my return to see the changes in the country and to often be told by the people I was with that I should not say certain things or air my views on sensitive subjects as I may "cause offence" to someone who may happened to overhear what I had said! Crazy situation!
The various firearm laws brought in to restrict their supply and use has not prevented people from having access to and using illegal firearms (regardless of what politicians say!) and tighter controls regarding the supply of knives will still not prevent people from accessing, carrying and using them as they wish. Most people can make a blade or shiv if they want to, at least with a legal sale there is a trail that could help if a crime is committed.
Please help me understand something guys!? Does this proposed law change also include international purchases or just within the UK?
We are also considering whether the offences should also apply to catalogue/mail order service sales of knives and to delivery services for knives ordered online from abroad.
78. There is the potential for foreign ordered knives not to follow the UK regulations and their product may not be flagged when entering the country. This may provide a bias for people to try and order knives from abroad in order to try and circumvent the inconvenience or additional costs of UK shipped knives. This can lead to a competitive bias towards foreign based companies.
More importantly.........can i change my username to turbosnake?
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I can only weep when I see such a post.I completely agree with this guy.
who the hell needs a 50.cal rifle? I would totally support banning them... Come to think of it, why should anyone need a gun? Isn't bushcraft about harmony with nature... Not blowing the crap out of innocent creatures!
We should all collectively back a ban on stupid non practical knives and fire arms.
Well that is rather the point. You've basically contradicted your own arguement several times in your post. You think tighter controls on sales are bad but admit that it doesn't affect anyone in real terms. So what is the problem? You also say legal sales are preferred but don't think ensuring that all sales are legal is necessary?
I believe C-Clay was mostly being facetious but I'll let him answer that himself. Regarding hunting with a "50 Caliber" you have to remember there's more than one cartridge that's designated a 50 caliber. I suspect any new legislation wouldn't recognize that and would ban common hunting cartridges as well; cartridges that have been around and used for hunting for nearly a century and a half www.tremors.wikia.com/wiki/1874_.50_Sharps_Buffalo_RifleC-Clay, there is no difference between shooting a .22LR rifle and a .50 BMG rifle.
You aim and squeeze the trigger.
Recoil is much stronger of course, not unlike a 10 ga.
Sure you can hunt with it. But expensive cartridges, large meat destruction and penetration makes this impractical.
I guess you could handload it for less power though to make it milder.
To ban a rifle caliber only because of its size shows how little the decision makers understand, and that they do not listen to expert advice.
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Not sure if facetious is the right word, but derision, certainly. I don't think there is anything inappropriate with meeting the argument that it is okay to ban things because they are not "needed" with derision.
Not sure that the 0.50 Sharps type cartridges are used for hunting here. I have seen such things at ranges, but never heard of deer stalkers using them, and that is the only big game we have.......
I don't shoot. I don't see anyone "needs" a 0.50...but then I don't drink alcohol, so none of you need to do that either...and I am never going to afford a Porsche, stupid ridiculously dangerously fast things...no one "needs" one of those! Oh...I think I could be on a roll...
With that in mind, I used all 250 of my allocated words in the consultation expressing my bafflement why the government are wasting time considering banning a firearm that has never been used in a crime, and is never likely to be used in a crime, and if it were used in a crime, would be a darned sight less deadly than all the illegal AKs that must be slipping past our patchy border controls. They had this same debate in the US, and it is hard to find any instances of anyone using such a rifle for a crime. I did hear that the IRA might have had one, and might have sent one guy to the US so he could be trained how to shoot it, but don't know if that was just rumour.
In fact, if they want to ban something with the aim of saving lives, there is a far greater precedent for banning men with beards from renting delivery vehicles. (I have a beard, so this would be annoying too).