If proper firearms were legal in the UK...

[AtW]

would you... (poll to follow)

[FarmerPalmer]

I already do

[AtW]

I already do

btw "proper firearms" are semi-automatic handguns like 9mm Glock, MP5 PDW (that's personal defense weapon), M4 carbines etc...

Don't shoot cute fluffy critters with it though

[FarmerPalmer]

btw "proper firearms" are semi-automatic handguns like 9mm Glock, MP5 PDW (that's personal defense weapon), M4 carbines etc...

Don't shoot cute fluffy critters with it though

You mean like one of these:

http://www.sect5.co.uk/stock.php

[AtW]

You mean like one of these:

http://www.sect5.co.uk/stock.php

Aye

[scooterscot]

No I would not. The alligator pit works fine just for me...

pretty...

http://world.guns.ru/assault/as11-e.htm

[IR35 Avoider]

As I'm not a drug dealer, the probability of anyone trying to kill me is so low that it would not justify the cost of a gun, however cheap.

If I was offered one free, I would refused, because I would still have to find a safe place to store it.

If I were offered one free with a safe to store it in, I would refuse, as the expected utility would be below alternative uses for the space.

Maybe one of those new-fangled devices with fingerprint recognition would be a less onerous responsibility, but on balance I still think the negatives outweight the positives sufficiently that I would turn down a free one. (If I lived somewhere that I could actually shoot recreationally that might tip the balance.)

I can see there might be circumstances (other than being a drug dealer) where some people genuinely feel at risk, so I do think we should have a right to own guns. I've not looked into it, but I read somewhere a recommendation for a suitable weapon for beginners, which came with a laser sight. I've always been under the impression that handguns are much harder to fire accurately than is portrayed in the movies, so it's kind of scary to think that now hitting a target is no more difficult than pointing a laser pointer.

[Diver]

Under the law Our EEC buddies have the same rights.

Let's arm all the poles and other recent arrivals from Hungary, Bulgaria, Macedonia, Romania, the Czech Republic, Slovakia and Serbia-Montenegro. at least we will be comforted by the knowledge that most of these are quite proficient in the use of firearms, what with the fighting and ethnic cleansing of the not too distant past

[Durbs]

First thing to remember with a pistol is not to turn it on its side when you are firing it.

Remember seeing something on telly about that. Its the gangsta rapper way of doing it and all the South Central homeboyz shoot that way to look cool.

Has the drawback though that they generally don't hit what they were aiming at and 'pop a cap' in a passer-by instead.

To answer the original Q though, no, a gun is not something i'd be interested in owning. I keep a claw hammer handy for any burglary moments and will take my chances with that.

[gingerjedi]

First thing to remember with a pistol is not to turn it on its side when you are firing it.

That irritates the crap out of me every time I see it, fliping amateurs.

Whilst the likes of Elmer Keith might be able to hit stuff at 500 yards, the rest of us are lucky to be able to hit the inside of a barn...

The same people hold a torch like a dagger above their heads, the British way is to hold it in the same way as you would hold your cock.

Bloody foreigners.