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To: Georgia Girl 2

This isn’t the first time I have correct you on this, but here goes again.

Firstly, bad gun laws and kneejerk gun laws aside, the UK did NOT ban all guns. There are 2.3m legal guns in the UK, down from 2.6m in 1996, pre-handgun ban (on the mainland).

Secondly, the guns that were ‘taken’ were actually handed over in amnesties for UK handgun owners in 1997-98. Or owners were asked to hand them in at local police stations if the police wouldn’t, post-ban, renew their handgun licence. Which still exists, as not all handguns were banned.

Sorry to disappoint you, but the Limey coppers didn’t swarm the dear old Blighty kicking in doors of normal Limeys and take their guns off of them.


35 posted on 11/02/2014 1:22:38 PM PST by the scotsman (UK)
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To: the scotsman

I know you like to live in a dream world and I don’t blame you. If I lived in the UK I would just stay on crack 24/7 to delude myself.

For all intents and purposes there are no guns allowed in the UK. By the time you go get your blunderbuss out of the lock box and load it you would be dead. Yeh you can have a handgun at a gun club locked up where you can’t get to them if you need them. But the criminals in the UK have guns.


37 posted on 11/02/2014 1:30:28 PM PST by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose o f a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped.)
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