Is newsagent allowed to display BB guns in shop window?

lovinituk

Looks like Cumbria police don't allow the sale of BB guns at all at the Appleby Horse Fair so I'm not sure why they would be handing out cards containing misleading information...

http://www.cockermouthlocal.co.uk/cumbria-police-we-will-not-tolerate-trouble-at-appleby-horse-fair-1.824065

earthstorm

lovinituk wrote: »

Looks like Cumbria police don't allow the sale of BB guns at all at the Appleby Horse Fair so I'm not sure why they would be handing out cards containing misleading information...

http://www.cockermouthlocal.co.uk/cumbria-police-we-will-not-tolerate-trouble-at-appleby-horse-fair-1.824065

that was from Friday, 01 April 2011. maybe they changed this year (would explain not getting a card in previous years) or maybe they just handed cards out as they basically mentioned the firearms act and as i did not have any BB guns and mentioned i dont sell them they never went into any details. each year every stall is visited at the start of the event by the police and TS, who look well over stalls and in any stock boxes under the stall.. This year 12 stalls were closed down for selling counterfeit goods

lovinituk

You may or may not have a card that wrongly mentions 16 years old. However unless some solid evidence can be linked to to back it up I'm confident we're safe to say that the law states the minimum age for any BB gun is 18 years old. The myriad of various police force and other government websites that state 18 is more than enough evidence of it.

OlliesDad

I have just checked the Firearms Act and can find no reference to the line that card apparently quotes. Are you sure it was a genuine police officer? To be fair, police officers require only basic law training and therefore the fine details appear to have been mistaken.

mttylad

And what has the shopkeeper in post#1 said about all this?

forgotmyname

halibut2209 wrote: »

Ahh, my favourite (and most ridiculous) argument used by the pro-gunners

As silly as someone mixing up BB guns and air rifles?

earthstorm wrote: »

check UK links here

http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/showpost.php?p=63179389&postcount=35

Well if those article's are anything to go by.. So many flaws...

2 are not even the UK already mentioned i think.

The forcechange article seems confused.. BB gun that takes bullets, Says its not powerful enough to kill a cat. Then goes on to mention what may have happened. So they don't know the true facts.

The UK one in Cambridge claims modern airguns have immense power. Err no they dont they have 12ft/lbs of muzzle energy.
They have for many years. I already mentioned anything greater requires a firearms certificate.

Spend £40 on a crossbow from the Market and its got a much greater energy potential.

Nice play on the statement from the RSPCA. Too many animals brought in with life threatening injuries...

But doesnt say they are all from air gun injuries. How many got run over or from fighting another cat or a dog?

halibut2209

No no, it's far more silly than that

Slowhand

So earthstorm will you concede that the amateur MSE advice is correct and that your (allegedly professional ) obtained advice is wrong...yet again? You cannot continue to give out wrong information.

heart_free

A few years ago my son who was 18 at the time got a new job just before we were due to go on a family holiday. Very reluctantly (18 year old boys are not known for their sense) I agreed he could stay home, and that my BIL who lives 2 streets away would check on him every day. About 3 weeks after I came back from the holiday I answered a knock at the door to 2 police officers. Very scary as OH and oldest son were both due home from work, and my first thought was there'd been an accident. After they'd reassured me that they were there to talk to my son, and I'd calmed down they asked if they could wait. I of course said yes.

When my son came in he was promptly arrested under the firearms offence, and they asked him if he owned a gun. I told them of course he didn't, I would never even allow him to own a BB gun as I thought they were dangerous. Stupid idiot then admitted that while we were on holidays he'd used his first weeks wages to buy a BB gun! Turns out that after purchasing the bloody thing, while his mate was driving them home, he took it out of the box to "check out the sights". A taxi driver behind them had seen 2 youths with what he thought was an automatic rifle and rang the police. They traced them via his mates number plate. Stupid boy was taken to the cells, with the gun taken as evidence. He was released on bail 24 hours later. Ended up in court on a firearms charge, despite being a BB gun. While waiting for his case to be heard at the court, a duty solicitor told him the only evidence they had was his own admittance, and got te charge reduced to a public nuisance charge which he received a 2 year suspended sentence for. He asked the court himself to dispose of the BB gun as he never wanted to see it again.

A valuable lesson learned? Oh no! Idiot is now 25 and still has no sense. 2 months ago he walks in after visiting a mate with a gun case! On questioning its a air rifle he's bought off his mate to "have some fun shooting cans with"! Needless to say he quickly took it back OUT of the house with my foot up his backside.

earthstorm

Slowhand wrote: »

So earthstorm will you concede that the amateur MSE advice is correct and that your (allegedly professional ) obtained advice is wrong...yet again? You cannot continue to give out wrong information.

No i will take what a government agency tells me rather than anyone on a public forum.
yes the card was given to me by a REAL policeman. abuse and insults towards me on this forum will always be reported.