Air rifles don't make loud bangs.
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I’ve seen plenty with sound moderators on.Air rifles don't make loud bangs.
There is something missing from this write-up.
Firearms Act 1968https://www.judiciary.uk/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/r-v-grannon-sentencing-remarks.pdf don`t know if this will show if you click on it, judges sentencing remarks, gives some info on the gun used, something wrong here as the gun was over the Uk limit at the guys request, that makes it FAC and he knew it that alone should have given him a 5 stretch without causing a death with the fecking thing
https://www.judiciary.uk/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/r-v-grannon-sentencing-remarks.pdf don`t know if this will show if you click on it, judges sentencing remarks, gives some info on the gun used, something wrong here as the gun was over the Uk limit at the guys request, that makes it FAC and he knew it that alone should have given him a 5 stretch without causing a death with the fecking thing
I read the sad news of Stanley Metcalf (age 6) death from an air gun shooting injury. The BBC report mentions of the perpetrator. "The 78-year-old also admitted possessing an air rifle without holding a firearms certificate."
It seems unlikely this is poor reporting on the possession of a sub 12flb gun and so the gun was Section 1. How does someone simply get one of those without an FAC I wonder? I can't imagine there are that many around to nick or that such things are what the underworld gun sellers would be offering.
I've heard you can uprate them to exceed the limit but how many bother going to that length? I would imagine that is not something a reputable armourer going to do in a back-room kind of style.
I am not sure on the idea of licensing air rifles/pistols but how to keep them out of the hands of idiots is a reasonable question I think. These types of incidents always seem to be the result of someone being utterly useless at safe handling.
I’ve seen plenty with sound moderators on.
usually pcp`s, on spring powered guns they are more use as a bit more leverage to cock themI’ve seen plenty with sound moderators on.
I know why they’re added. You say that an air rifle of 15-16 ft/lb’s isn’t loud. Indoors, in a kitchen, it’ll be loud.That is to make them as quiet as they possibly can be.
It increases the chance of a second shot at a group of eg rabbits who would have legged it after being startled by the first shot,
Decent moderators on PCP’s, yes.usually pcp`s, on spring powered guns they are more use as a bit more leverage to cock them
I know why they’re added. You say that an air rifle of 15-16 ft/lb’s isn’t loud. Indoors, in a kitchen, it’ll be loud.
Read in the paper that the pellet went straight through the poor lad. Never heard of an air rifle doing that before, I wonder if the thing dieseled as well which would also explain the loud bang. I took a shot at a tree rat today with my old Webley MkIII. I hadn't used it for a couple of months and the thing dieseled with quite a bang.
Poor lad was only 6 years old so would be quite slim, sounds like only soft tissue was involved, add to that the rifle had been upped to 15/16 ftlbs.Read in the paper that the pellet went straight through the poor lad. Never heard of an air rifle doing that before, I wonder if the thing dieseled as well which would also explain the loud bang. I took a shot at a tree rat today with my old Webley MkIII. I hadn't used it for a couple of months and the thing dieseled with quite a bang.