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beevul

(12,194 posts)
Tue May 31, 2016, 11:54 AM May 2016

Scottish airgun surrender campaign nets 0.45% of province’s plinkers

This discussion thread was locked as off-topic by krispos42 (a host of the Gun Control & RKBA group).

Scottish airgun surrender campaign nets 0.45% of province’s plinkers

31 May 2016 – Police Scotland is boasting that 2,300 airguns have been handed in to it during an airgun surrender campaign, netting the police force less than half of one per cent of airguns north of the border.


A police press release, enthusiastically churned by the BBC, reveals the figures. The campaign began last week and will run for another fortnight.

The second-from-last paragraph of the BBC churn reveals the total estimated airgun ownership figure of 500,000, and claims that airguns were used in 182 crimes in the year 2013-14. Readers will be interested to note that just 0.04% of airguns in Scotland have ever been used in the commission of a crime.

Meanwhile, the advert at the top of this post was reportedly seen on a bus in Aberdeen last week and shared with Facebook page Firearms UK. Issued by the Scottish National Socialist Party government, it clearly infers that airgun owners likely to apply for licences are people who stand on urban doorsteps aiming airguns at their neighbours.

https://ukshootingnews.wordpress.com/2016/05/31/scottish-airgun-surrender-campaign-nets-0-45-of-provinces-plinkers/



Posted for the benefit of those who want America to use the rest of the world as a yardstick.

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Scottish airgun surrender campaign nets 0.45% of province’s plinkers (Original Post) beevul May 2016 OP
just a suggestion gejohnston May 2016 #1
Assault air guns. JonathanRackham May 2016 #2
I think they've already started tightening things up in that regard... beevul May 2016 #3
It's a good start sarisataka May 2016 #4
Like an old Lab straining at stool, the Scots government feels another ban comin' on. Eleanors38 May 2016 #5
That the good citizens... Puha Ekapi May 2016 #6
Locking krispos42 May 2016 #7

gejohnston

(17,502 posts)
1. just a suggestion
Tue May 31, 2016, 12:06 PM
May 2016

the Scottish National Socialist Party should really consider changing its name.

JonathanRackham

(1,604 posts)
2. Assault air guns.
Tue May 31, 2016, 12:28 PM
May 2016

Designed for only one purpose. Next month they'll sponsor a butter knife turn in.

 

beevul

(12,194 posts)
3. I think they've already started tightening things up in that regard...
Tue May 31, 2016, 12:38 PM
May 2016
Next month they'll sponsor a butter knife turn in.


I think they've already started tightening things up in that regard:




I weep for people that have to live with such stupidity.

sarisataka

(21,000 posts)
4. It's a good start
Tue May 31, 2016, 12:47 PM
May 2016
 

Eleanors38

(18,318 posts)
5. Like an old Lab straining at stool, the Scots government feels another ban comin' on.
Tue May 31, 2016, 03:02 PM
May 2016

Puha Ekapi

(594 posts)
6. That the good citizens...
Tue May 31, 2016, 08:48 PM
May 2016

...of Scotland will likely respond to with an extended middle finger...

krispos42

(49,445 posts)
7. Locking
Tue May 31, 2016, 09:32 PM
May 2016

Air guns are not firearms and are really outside the SoP of the Group when a stand-alone OP.

Regards,
Krispos42, Group Host

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