Hoho gun amnesty

[Renagade 0]

official site

http://www.getgunsoffthestreets.co.uk/

The information minister  has something to say too

http://www.frontrank.org.uk/

lol some old guy even  handed in  a sword  

lol wtf reading through parts of the first website this caught my eye

</span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote </td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">What about CS gas and pepper sprays?

The possession of these sprays is banned, and if people have them they should hand them in. The maximum penalty for possession is 10 years.

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i guess they just make em up as they go along

[Hit_Sqd_Maximus 0]

AAAH, the UK  

[FSPilot 0]

To be honest 97 deaths isn't that many. It's 97 too many, definately, but they don't have a gun problem in the UK.

[Renagade 0]

but some ppl really think we do WHAT ABOUT THE CHILDREN !!! unless the say boo to their attacker then they become evil criminals.

I find it amusing for replicas to be called "weapons"

What are u meant to do with a gun thats effectively an ornament,throw it at them? If so wouldn`t bricks be a better choice

BAN THE BRICK !!

[IsthatyouJohnWayne 0]

'they don't have a gun problem in the UK'

Depends where you're at and compared to what.

Drive slowly through some estates in Brixton ,Streatham or somewhere in London at about 11:30pm playing country and western music (or something) and i guarantee someone would put a cap in yo ass. So to speak.

[FSPilot 0]

Or just wave an American flag.

[Warin 0]

Try this one out!

This guy writes pretty decent fantasy novels. He's an avid handgun shooter... or was. He's starting a new party in the uk.

My favourite quote from his webpage:

</span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote </td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">The Labour Party has achieved a level of incompetence, sleaze and general untrustworthiness in six years that took the Conservative Party eighteen, while the Conservative Party itself is still in a state of glassy-eyed shock following its well-earned and self-inflicted electoral defeats in 1997 and 2001.<span id='postcolor'>

This is a good paper he wrote on legal firearms ownership in regards to the firearms laws enacted after Dunblaine.

All around he's a bit of a crank, but a very intelligent man.

[IsthatyouJohnWayne 0]

For some reason this is making me want to go play Grand Theft Auto 2. I just have this image in my mind of American rednecks having a big a shootout with south london thugs.

crazy

anyway i just realised its about 2:30 UK time. time to go slleeeeeeeeep   zz z

"...Oh a cowboys life aint easy, a cowboys life is hard ,you can kick him from the saddle but he'll be forever scarred..."

[FSPilot 0]

He's got my vote!

Oh wait, I'm not english.

[IsthatyouJohnWayne 0]

That guys certainly right about the need for a new political party. Lots of people i know have suggested the same thing (and i feel a need for one myself). I suppose its true of many or most developed countries where a certain disillusionment with traditional party political representative democracy is being felt.

Vote ITYJohnWayne!

Now with 10% more agenda !

flavoursome social welfare initiatives and a 'random foreign policy change of the week' prize draw..

Todays draw.... Invade Lithuania!

hurrah!

well it beats 'new labour'

[canukausiuka 1]

</span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote </td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">Hand in:

· Illegally-held guns and ammunition

· Imitation firearms and air guns used for criminal purposes

· Unwanted guns and ammunition, including air guns and imitations<span id='postcolor'>

hehe, that's great:

Yeah, uh, I just used this toy gun to rob a store, so I'm going to turn it in to the police now

What self-respecting criminal would turn in the fake gun he used in a crime? Wouldn't that be kind of... embarassing?

[booradley60 0]

</span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote </td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">country and western music (or something) and i guarantee someone would put a cap in yo ass.<span id='postcolor'>

</span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote </td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">Or just wave an American flag.<span id='postcolor'>

</span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote </td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">I just have this image in my mind of American rednecks having a big a shootout with south london thugs.<span id='postcolor'>

American "rednecks" don't pop caps in people's asses. East-side crips might but a redneck will just put a load of buckshot in your ass. They don't do gangfights in the streets either. Many rednecks live too far away from other people (much less cities) to worry about street crime. Actually, I live in Alabama and somebody within about 100 miles of here did a driveby with a Remington 12-gauge from a John-Deere... i think a pig was involved...

[Warin 0]

</span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote (IsthatyouJohnWayne @ 02 May 2003,03:48)</td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">That guys certainly right about the need for a new political party. Lots of people i know have suggested the same thing (and i feel a need for one myself). I suppose its true of many or most developed countries where a certain disillusionment with traditional party political representative democracy is being felt.

Vote ITYJohnWayne!

Now with 10% more agenda !

flavoursome social welfare initiatives and a 'random foreign policy change of the week' prize draw..

Todays draw.... Invade Lithuania!

hurrah!

well it beats 'new labour'<span id='postcolor'>

Send Rog an email!

He's right that if no one does anything, nothing will happen.

And you are in the UK. I cant join because I am a Canadian, and us former colonials dont quite qualify

[Tex -USMC- 0]

I'd vote for ya, so long as a cross-Channel invasion is included in that foreign policy draw

[Guest]

</span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote (Renagade @ 02 May 2003,02:43)</td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">I find it amusing for  replicas to be called "weapons"  

What are u meant to do with a gun thats effectively an ornament,throw it at them? If so wouldn`t bricks be a better choice<span id='postcolor'>

If someone wearing a skimask is waving "a gun" in your face, would you be able to tell whether or not it is a replica? And do it quickly enough....because if you got it wrong......

The point is reasonably obvious why replicas should be banned. In most incidents of crime involving guns, the gun is used as a threat. It's only rarely that it then is used. Most people couldn't tell the diference between a real gun and a replica (and apparently quite a few cops can't either....number of people shot holding hairdryers etc....)

[MrMilli 0]

if your wearing a ski mask and waving a 'gun' at an armed copper, good luck to you and I hope your affairs were in order because thats just darwin at work in my opinion.

[Renagade 0]

</span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote (Leone @ 02 May 2003,07:59)</td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE"></span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote (Renagade @ 02 May 2003,02:43)</td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">I find it amusing for  replicas to be called "weapons"  

What are u meant to do with a gun thats effectively an ornament,throw it at them? If so wouldn`t bricks be a better choice<span id='postcolor'>

If someone wearing a skimask is waving "a gun" in your face, would you be able to tell whether or not it is a replica? And do it quickly enough....because if you got it wrong......

The point is reasonably obvious why replicas should be banned. In most incidents of crime involving guns, the gun is used as a threat. It's only rarely that it then is used. Most people couldn't tell the diference between a real gun and a replica (and apparently quite a few cops can't either....number of people shot holding hairdryers etc....)<span id='postcolor'>

I never said they weren`t

I find it amusing to call them weapons same with airguns being called air weapons to make them seem more dangerous than they are and generally a bad rep.

The power of a replica as a tool to threaten is also helped along by the news shouldn`t they also be held liable in some part?

[nolips71 0]

i swear some people brought stuff in just to get on calender news, some loser brought in a cannon

[Jinef 2]

I saw some people in the countryside playing with airsoft guns, they were camouflaged up and had replica SA80s without the little red thing, i actually thought at first they were the RAF regiment or something out on an exercise because of their postures and gear but then i saw the safety goggles and i thought that must be fun, and as it's in the countryside no one cares much. But in a city carrying a pocketknife is illegal, my dad (an american ) has had numerous pocket knives confiscated, so he goes and buys a new one from a shop, crazy. He keeps writing letters to the police about knives and how they are useful etc but you are still not meant to carry them but anyway i'm rambling.

You don't need much intelligence to kill someone and a weapon always helps, take away the weapons and you have less dead and injured people. If an armed police officer unit is called in they will not hesitate to kill you if they think you are presenting a threat to an innocent or themselves. If it turns out to be a replica the blame should die with the idiot who brought it into the streets in the first place.

[nolips71 0]

yes the country side....... more like the cabbageside round here..... and your not allowed to walk round in gangs bigger then 2 or you get arrested

[Epita 0]

Where do you live?

Its over now, so handing in will get u Busted! But the police will not have guns, so just fire a bb at them and see how pissed of they are! (do NOT do this) No one cares round here when I go into a nearby field and test out my aim, with a rep. Only it can fire darts, which are NASTY. Im not handing anything in, who would?

[nolips71 0]

lincolnshite ahem i mean lincolnshire

[Jinef 2]

Bah, you should go to Swansea.

Or even better Merthyr Tydfil!

[IsthatyouJohnWayne 0]

"you should go to Swansea"

No you shouldnt. Stay away.

Jinef- How the heck does your dad manage to get pocket knives confiscated? Does he throw them at the police or just flick them out randomly whilst in the street?

As i understand it the police will generally only confiscate pocket knives if they (having seen them) suspect malicious intent (especially if said knives are over 3 inches or have a lockable blade). Ive actually been searched by the police when they gave me back my knife

I habitually carry a pocket knife and i have never feared getting it confiscated. A friend of mine used to carry a sharpened screwdriver around with him. But he was crazy

Anyway back on (soon to be closed) topic , if this amnesty has saved a single life then it must be worth it.

[Necromancer- 0]

Pocket knives?? confiscated?? ROFLMFAO

UK law is turning into the hypocrite Dutch Law....

And there is nothing we, airsoft players, can do...

we've tried all most effective ways... but no luck.