UK- Antiques gun collector jailed for owning 4 air rifles

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UK- Antiques gun collector jailed for owning 4 air rifles

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More idiocy from the UK. :banghead:

Blennerhassett admitted possessing one air rifle without a certificate, which was just over the permitted velocity limit, and was convicted by a jury of illegally possessing three others which had been modified, and two charges of possessing a bullet.
A bullet, oh the humanity....
The police raid last December also uncovered what was described as an "air rifle kit" involving magazines, pellets and compression springs.
Magazine, pellets and compression springs. Can kids get those at Walmart?
He told 29-year-old Blennerhassett, 'The control and regulation of firearms is an extremely important matter in relation to maintaining public safety.'
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...we have judges that smart...lots of 'em...
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We are looking at our future... I hope we can delay it, but it sure feels inevitable these days...
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The judge needs to go back to school. Combustion, also known as "Fire," does not occur without A) fuel, B) oxygen, and C) an ignition source—something common to ALL FIREarms.

Air rifles are not "firearms."

Other than that, I'm glad they got that bullet away from him. He could have killed everybody on the planet with it.
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...prolly woulda put his eye out... :thumbs2:
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The problem with Great Britain and their war on firearms ownership is that, being a leftist society, they have very little respect for the individual. That general lack of respect extends to not caring if an individual can properly defend their life or the life of a loved one, much less their property (zero lack of respect for the average person's property there). The government has an almost hysterical fear that some individual may make an example by fighting back (people there have been prosecuted and jailed for doing so) against criminals. They want EVERYONE (except a handful of very "special" people) to be completely dependent on the government for their daily lives. Now doesn't that sound like a certain political party in this nation?
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I guess he should have obeyed the law.
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Should we really be a part of NATO anymore. Would we really send our boys to save this lot again.
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