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[Misc] Would you like to own a gun?
- Thread starter lawros left foot
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There are many processes before shooting them that the RSPCB would expect you to go through first.
A mate of mine shot so many from his flat across the road to his business roof opposite that the parapet wall flooded because the gutter and downpipes were blocked by pigeon decomposition
Mr Putdown
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The General Licences have been updated.
Shooting wood pigeon for the pot is, bizarrely, now illegal.
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worthingseagull123
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- May 5, 2012
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Leekbrookgull
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Tony Martin,think about it. Yet no problem here.
dadams2k11
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Yes, but only if they were muskets.
By the time you have loaded the thing, you would have calmed down and sorted the issue out, ending up going for a beer and/or joint.
Other than that, it's a BIG FAT NO!!!!
By the time you have loaded the thing, you would have calmed down and sorted the issue out, ending up going for a beer and/or joint.
Other than that, it's a BIG FAT NO!!!!
jakarta
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That is bizarre, if I used an air rifle to bump one off in my own garden, then ate it, I could be banged up?
Whereas this lot...
https://www.woodpigeonhunting.com/
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Perkino
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- Dec 11, 2009
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My in-laws own a small holding in West Wales. 4 acres of land and plenty of pests such as Foxes and rats. I can see the temptation to use a rifle to look after their own animals. Personally I've no interest in sitting on the bench with a night vision sighter waiting for something to arrive but I've not had to deal with animal remains after the fox has visited
A .22 air rifle will be enough for rats - no licence needed and legally ok to shoot providing the pellets aren’t leaving your property boundary.
The licensing process is (thankfully) pretty robust from what I’ve seen. I recently helped my elderly neighbour with his licence renewal as it’s now all online - he (legally) shoots on a couple of farms owned by pals of his. He’s had guns all his life, but still had to provide two references and a letter from his doctor confirming he was fit to hold a licence. His house was also visited to make sure his gun safe met the required standard and that the guns were as described on the application, and he also had some of his ammunition taken away as it was deemed he had more than he needed.
Why would anyone need a gun ?
Publius Ovidius
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When we lived in South Africa most of us whiteys had a gun. My father was “introduced” to the armoury that came with a house we rented outside joburg by the owner and we could have started a small war with a collection of hand guns and rifles. Scared my father to death to be in the same room as the gun cabinet which was hidden away in a walk in wardrobe room.
I had a .22 rifle that our cleaner Theo, a huge mountain of a man, a Zulu, thought me how to shoot it and risked his “ pass” by doing so. He was a very intelligent man and my father used to give him his engineering books to read, which ended up with a visit from the police , a guy who lived upstairs, who told my father what he was doing is verboten and he risks being flung in jail! We came back home 6 months later.
Fecking horrible place in the 1960’s
I had a .22 rifle that our cleaner Theo, a huge mountain of a man, a Zulu, thought me how to shoot it and risked his “ pass” by doing so. He was a very intelligent man and my father used to give him his engineering books to read, which ended up with a visit from the police , a guy who lived upstairs, who told my father what he was doing is verboten and he risks being flung in jail! We came back home 6 months later.
Fecking horrible place in the 1960’s
GT49er
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Yes.I believe a .22 would do the job - that was the kind of answer I would have hoped for/expected from my local 'friendly' constabulary, not the treatment I recieved!
Fortunately the little b**t**ds (the rats, not the police) seem to be keeping their distance...........
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Mr Putdown
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The only circumstances where you are now permitted to shoot wood pigeon are to prevent following:-
Livestock - feedstuffs and spread of disease
Crops, fruit and vegetables
jakarta
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Mr Putdown
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That is OK then, I have a small vegetable patch...
Just so long as your small vegetable patch is suffering ‘serious damage’ to its crops, vegetables, fruit, and growing timber that exceeds mere nuisance, minor damage or normal business risk.
And even then, only after you’ve failed to solve the problem by using Alternative lawful methods!
I’ve fired a few guns over the years, never in combat or in a life or death situation though. We had training in Army cadets and I’ve used countless blank firers on film sets. So as I’ve never had to use one to defend mine or anyone else’s life it’s not really a call I am comfortable to make.
Having said that, I voted “yes” to owning one. Mainly because I think I society is going to fall apart in my lifetime and I’d like the reassurance of owning a firearm to shoot people who intend me harm.
Which sounds odd now I have typed it out.
I keep an extendable police style baton hidden in my bedroom incase I ever have to front up to an intruder. That’s enough for now.
Having said that, I voted “yes” to owning one. Mainly because I think I society is going to fall apart in my lifetime and I’d like the reassurance of owning a firearm to shoot people who intend me harm.
Which sounds odd now I have typed it out.
I keep an extendable police style baton hidden in my bedroom incase I ever have to front up to an intruder. That’s enough for now.
Sadly I'm inclined to agree with you, I don't think we're anywhere near gun level yet though.
Monkey Man
Your support is not that great
Our gun laws are among the last things we can say we do better than many other countries. Long may it stay that way.
I agree, however as we have seen very recently, a situation can very rapidly escalate from not needing a gun to needing a gun.
I’d rather be prepared.
I am what would be termed a “month prepper”. In that I have things like emergency food rations, collapsable water containers, water purification tablets, medical supplies, first aid, woke up radio, torches and batterie, cat litter and waste bags and other stuff to last a month - 6 weeks.
It’s not something I think about constantly but I researched what one would need to survive various situations, got what I needed and stored it away. I feel reassured by it . I won’t lie, I’d be more reassured if there was a gun in that bag.
Having said all that, if they dropped the bomb, I’d want to go in the blast. No amount of emergency rations or poo-bags are going to save you from the horrors of a nuclear fallout. Which is another reason I’d like a gun.