GUNS: Should they be legal in the UK ?

[Taiga261]

Please discuss, would love everyone's opinion on this.

[headgroundsman]

For personal protection? For game shooting and deer culling? Pest control? Targets? Please be more specific.

[Darrin Turnbull]

I think he means like this.

 

[Darrin Turnbull]

Europe is ok the way it is.

[Haironyourchest]

I would posit the question differently: "If pistols and automatic rifles were legal, would you choose to own one/several?"

[JLA Arborists]

Correct me if wrong but isn't it it already legal to own guns with a license just like the states. It's the open carry we don't do.

[scraggs]

Correct me if wrong but isn't it it already legal to own guns with a license just like the states. It's the open carry we don't do.

 

We are not allowed to own anything like the type of guns that are allowed in the states

[DanClimbsTrees]

Isn't it already the case that shotguns and non-automatic rifles are legal with sensible regulation for sports and pest control?

 

I do not believe "personal protection" to be a valid reason for ownership nor do I believe guns should be allowed to be kept in central city postcodes and should instead be kept secure by the clubs at which they'll be used. I think for rural postcodes however it is fine to possess shotguns and rifles if they're in a proper gun safe and you have appropriate licences and background checks etc.

 

The reason America has such a disastrous problem with gun control is because over there they are considered a 'right' and thus any attempt at mandatory licensing or background checks is seen as an attempt to make them a 'privilege' and is therefore an infringement on their rights.

 

Just my thoughts, would be interested to hear others.

[eggsarascal]

The gun law in this country is an ass, like most other law.

 

I can't get a Shotgun license, yet there is a perfectly legal shotgun in our house.

 

Bonkers me thinks.

[Matthew Storrs]

I,m not overly familiar with the legislation required to own a gun in the uk, but I can't see any good coming froming anyone wanting to own a gun that isn't directly involved in game hunting/shooting/stalking etc.

Given the apparent regularity of 'shootouts' in schools/public places in the US, I personally think ownership of a gun should not be easy and certainly not a given right. censorship definiatly required.