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Offline Mince

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Buying a Gun
« on: June 06, 2011, 06:37:02 PM »
Which do you think is easier in the UK: buying a replica gun or buying a real deactivated gun?
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Offline Diane CBPFC

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Re: Buying a Gun
« Reply #1 on: June 06, 2011, 07:06:00 PM »
We have a ton of guns if you need one.
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Jerry Attrick

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Re: Buying a Gun
« Reply #2 on: June 06, 2011, 08:00:02 PM »
Someone annoyed you Mince? ;)
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Offline Roger Kettle

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Re: Buying a Gun
« Reply #3 on: June 06, 2011, 08:34:15 PM »
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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Offline Mince

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Re: Buying a Gun
« Reply #4 on: June 06, 2011, 08:38:23 PM »
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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Offline The Peepmaster

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Re: Buying a Gun
« Reply #5 on: June 06, 2011, 08:42:19 PM »
Quote from: Diane CBPFC on June 06, 2011, 07:06:00 PM
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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Vulture

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Re: Buying a Gun
« Reply #6 on: June 06, 2011, 08:48:35 PM »
Quote from: The Peepmaster on June 06, 2011, 08:42:19 PM
Quote from: Diane CBPFC on June 06, 2011, 07:06:00 PM
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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Offline The Peepmaster

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Re: Buying a Gun
« Reply #7 on: June 06, 2011, 09:09:32 PM »
This reminded me of a couple of ancient cartoons I did... Just looked them up on Google.

Here's one.

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Offline The Peepmaster

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Re: Buying a Gun
« Reply #8 on: June 06, 2011, 09:12:29 PM »
Here's the other... (This one was published in The Sun.)

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Offline Roger Kettle

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Re: Buying a Gun
« Reply #9 on: June 06, 2011, 09:23:56 PM »
Quote from: Mince on June 06, 2011, 08:38:23 PM
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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Offline Bilthehut

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Re: Buying a Gun
« Reply #10 on: June 06, 2011, 11:15:15 PM »
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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Offline Diane CBPFC

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Re: Buying a Gun
« Reply #11 on: June 07, 2011, 01:19:24 AM »
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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Diamond Lil

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Re: Buying a Gun
« Reply #12 on: June 07, 2011, 06:44:44 AM »
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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Re: Buying a Gun
« Reply #13 on: June 07, 2011, 04:32:44 PM »
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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Joan

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Re: Buying a Gun
« Reply #14 on: June 08, 2011, 07:54:49 AM »
Quote from: Bog on June 07, 2011, 04:32:44 PM
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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