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Related: About this forumScottish airgun surrender campaign nets 0.45% of province’s plinkers
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Scottish airgun surrender campaign nets 0.45% of provinces 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/
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/
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Scottish airgun surrender campaign nets 0.45% of province’s plinkers (Original Post)
beevul
May 2016
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Like an old Lab straining at stool, the Scots government feels another ban comin' on.
Eleanors38
May 2016
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gejohnston
(17,502 posts)1. just a suggestion
the Scottish National Socialist Party should really consider changing its name.
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JonathanRackham
(1,604 posts)2. Assault air guns.
Designed for only one purpose. Next month they'll sponsor a butter knife turn in.
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beevul
(12,194 posts)3. I think they've already started tightening things up in that regard...
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.
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sarisataka
(20,896 posts)4. It's a good start
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Eleanors38
(18,318 posts)5. Like an old Lab straining at stool, the Scots government feels another ban comin' on.
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Puha Ekapi
(594 posts)6. That the good citizens...
...of Scotland will likely respond to with an extended middle finger...
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krispos42
(49,445 posts)7. Locking
Air guns are not firearms and are really outside the SoP of the Group when a stand-alone OP.
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Krispos42, Group Host
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