Incoming crossbow ban

novioman said:
They are offering a license option to existing owners.
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I suppose on paper that's a good thing. I still don't trust the civil service not to bugger it up though
Bwian_eh? said:
And SGCs are taking 2 years, getting these ticketed isn't realistically going to happen.
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Just another effect successive cuts to police budgets means things like FAC applications take longer as they're lower priority. Although the cynical part of me does wonder if that's meant as a feature not a bug. By putting enough red tape and hurdles in the application then more people won't want to deal with the hassle, basically a back door banning
 
Interesting. 3 people get killed with a relatively exotic method, and there is immediate, instant, hand-wringing, pearl-clutching government action to ban it and lessen the liberty of us all.

So why such massive INACTION in other cases, on other specific, easily preventable/reversible societal ills (that I won't specify because I don't want to be arrested)? :unsure:
 
Cos gambling and alcohol are profitable, so they stay.

As someone who does HEMA fencing, these things float about a lot as a vague threat but rarely turn out to all that in reality.

As far as RIFs, you're hard pressed to severely wound or kill someone with them. Can take an eye out or crack teeth I guess, but you can do that with your hands. The main legal angle on them is the risk that someone will pretend it's a real gun during a robbery or something.
 
Lyndication said:
Cos gambling and alcohol are profitable, so they stay.

As someone who does HEMA fencing, these things float about a lot as a vague threat but rarely turn out to all that in reality.

As far as RIFs, you're hard pressed to severely wound or kill someone with them. Can take an eye out or crack teeth I guess, but you can do that with your hands. The main legal angle on them is the risk that someone will pretend it's a real gun during a robbery or something.
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Most replica airguns are as realistic as airsoft guns these days, some being identical, only more powerful.
 
novioman said:
Most replica airguns are as realistic as airsoft guns these days, some being identical, only more powerful.
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and the inverse of that, is go to the shooting show, and there's a huge percentage of real firearms that are bright coloured or two tone. Lots of bright reds and blues. But this is drifting into almost a defence debate but I guess that's still valid- they can remove RIFs just as easily as they are doing this. I'm more interested in the historical side than a modern compound crossbow, but any removal of target sports makes us all weaker as a shooting community.
 
At the end of the day only the law abiding obey laws, lots of people will ignore any ban on blank firers, crossbows, whatever. I dare say some are now buying crossbows before any law change comes in to effect.
Bans only really work when the powers that be know exactly who has what, in these cases they don’t, so not really effect.
60-80 thousand air cartridge guns were unaccounted for according to police and government when discussed in the House of Lords, so that worked well.🤔
 
Herrgh said:
Interesting. 3 people get killed with a relatively exotic method, and there is immediate, instant, hand-wringing, pearl-clutching government action to ban it and lessen the liberty of us all.

So why such massive INACTION in other cases, on other specific, easily preventable/reversible societal ills (that I won't specify because I don't want to be arrested)? :unsure:
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You are not going to get arrested for posting stuff on an obscure airsoft website; there is no need for the drama.
 
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