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Beau Peep Notice Board => Outpourings => Topic started by: Mince on June 06, 2011, 06:37:02 PM
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Which do you think is easier in the UK: buying a replica gun or buying a real deactivated gun?
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We have a ton of guns if you need one.
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Someone annoyed you Mince? ;)
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Years ago, I bought a replica Winchester rifle to go with all the Western memorabilia I had in my office. I broke it on the first night, playing with that reloading thingie that makes the satisfying clicking noise in movies.
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Selling (or importing) a realistic replica gun is against the law in the UK unless you the person you are selling it to has a museum to display it in, or is part of a theatre company or takes part in reenactments. However, the law does not apply to real deactivated guns: with those, if you are over 18, there is no problem.
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We have a ton of guns if you need one.
I can't condone that, Diane. We should be dealing in metric these days.
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We have a ton of guns if you need one.
I can't condone that, Diane. We should be dealing in metric these days.
When I was last in Canada, the fruit and veg was sold in lbs and oz., so Diane is perfectly correct to use imperial measurements!
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This reminded me of a couple of ancient cartoons I did... Just looked them up on Google.
Here's one.
(http://www.cartoonstock.com/newscartoons/cartoonists/nsu/lowres/nsun35l.jpg)
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Here's the other... (This one was published in The Sun.)
(http://www.cartoonstock.com/newscartoons/cartoonists/nsu/a_lowres/nsun26l.jpg)
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Selling (or importing) a realistic replica gun is against the law in the UK unless you the person you are selling it to has a museum to display it in, or is part of a theatre company or takes part in reenactments. However, the law does not apply to real deactivated guns: with those, if you are over 18, there is no problem.
Now that I think about it, mine must have been a deactivated one. It only took me a few minutes to get it going again and shoot the cat next door.
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Interestingly, while it is illegal to buy a replica gun (unless you are in a re-enactment club, etc (as mentioned by Mince), it is not illegal to buy an air pistol (or perhaps a rifle) capable of firing up to .22 pellets and using a CO2 cartridge to power it (thereby enabling semi-automatic fire). Yet that pistol could look just like a real gun, even down to a silencer and laser marker. I, myself, have a legal air pistol (like JB's real gun) and a paintball pistol (firing 6mm paintballs or 6mm rubber balls. The latter pistol looks remarkably like a Glock, apart from an extended pistol grip housing the gas cartridge.
As you can see from this picture. The magazine holds 9 balls and is semi-automatic.
Needless to say that to carry either around in public (except in their cases) is against the law. Should one use one in public, one would be charged with having a replica gun (that is if the SWAT team haven't shot you first).
Mine stay firmly at home and are used in the garden at inanimate objects.
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It is nice to know you could shoot something if you wanted to. I myself have never shot anything - almost put a mauled chicken out of her misery last week but by the time I got there with the gun she got up fast like and pretended to be healthy.
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That is such a wonderful image, Diane...that poor hen shaking out its feathers, waving a wing at you and crying "I'm fine, I'm fine." ;D
On the subject of guns, I recently heard of an amateur drama club (many years ago) needing a sound effect of an explosion in a coal mine...apparently a sawn-off shotgun fired into a bucket did the trick. Who needs Elf 'n' Safety?
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My brother found that if you shot at air rifle into pot pourri, it made a lovely noise but nothing moved! He went to a themed murder
mystery party as a big game hunter, baggy shorts the lot! tried the same thing with trifle.
truth and honour.
daft as a brush him! covered the room in custard!
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My brother found that if you shot at air rifle into pot pourri, it made a lovely noise but nothing moved! He went to a themed murder
mystery party as a big game hunter, baggy shorts the lot! tried the same thing with trifle.
truth and honour.
daft as a brush him! covered the room in custard!
:D :D :D
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Diane, your story about the hen reminded me of when I was little and my Dad and I were out in the garden one Saturday morning. We noticed that one of our neighbour, Aunty Camo's, hens had escaped into the farmer's field, so Dad and I chased after this thing madly until we finally caught it. We took it round to Aunty Camo, who said, "Thank you so much. I must give you something.", dug in her pocket, brought out a piece of string, rung the hen's neck and handed it to Dad!
I can't remember if we actually cooked it or not - don't think, even though I was a country girl, I would have been too happy about eating it.
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;D ;D
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I feel very guilty about the amount of chickens we breed for slaughter. I know we do the same to cows - even worse I suppose, as we keep them as milking cows by keeping them in motherhood mode (those udders are for feeding baby cows, not for milking machines) and then taking some of the babies away to be slaughtered for veal.
I live in a big chicken breeding/slaughtering area. Each company kills tens of thousands of chickens a DAY. All for what? mostly for the fast food market - awful chicken mcnuggets "coated in deliciousness" as the hoardings say. Funny, I thought it was just batter.
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awful chicken mcnuggets "coated in deliciousness" as the hoardings say. Funny, I thought it was just batter.
Nah! Batter is edible.
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My brother found that if you shot at air rifle into pot pourri, it made a lovely noise but nothing moved! He went to a themed murder
mystery party as a big game hunter, baggy shorts the lot! tried the same thing with trifle.
truth and honour.
daft as a brush him! covered the room in custard!
That would be hard to wash out of the elephant costume.