“we have a reasonable choice of legal weaponry”
I don’t consider rifles as legal weaponry except for home defense. How do you conceal carry one?
The restrictions you describe are Draconian.
Are you guys talking to your legislators about restoring your full right to armed?
How do women, the elderly and the infirm defend themselves when they are attacked while out in the public? Do they carry shotguns?
You live in the Derbyshire area? I lived in South and East Riding of Yorkshire.
My boys will be visiting Lindisfarne this summer.
http://www.thecountryman.com/used-beretta-al391-urika-12b-shotgun-190209
This one will be a pretty soft shooter. Good price too. You will need to clean it more frequently than the Mossberg though.
A majority of states have concealed carry, but with varying hoops to jump through that makes it easy in some but next to impossible in others.
But isn’t it illegal to use them for self defense?
What good is a gun for self-defense if the law prevents you from using it in that capacity?
Knife Ban pops in my head,,,
How’s that Working?
That's not "reasonable". That's tyranny.
Absolute nonsense. You cannot own a handgun at home. You cannot carry a handgun on your person. You cannot defend yourself with your shotgun. Is it at your home? I think not. It's at your gun club, isn't it?
Britain is a nation of CONQUERED PEOPLE, and it happened when you gave up your handguns and your right to carry. Slaves are disarmed. Free people are not.
Of course I am not surprised by your situation. There is a reason the people who left Britain in the 1700s and before decided to split off and form their own country.
Even though you have been disarmed, and lack any kind of reasonable access to firearms, and your laws are from our point of view ridiculous, we still share many common areas of interest.
“Handguns are banned (unfortunately),...”
And, unfortunately, we aren’t go to give you any of our hundreds of millions the next go around like we did the last. I love you Brits but despise your left wing politicans and governments almost as much as ours.
I am encouraged to see that even in this extreme fun control country some arms are allowed. Hope things loosen up for you.
(kinda hard to carry concealed...)
I remember when British citizens could own handguns, registered of course. Then came the Dunblane murders and an excuse to confiscate the registered guns.
A-s-s-ault rifles, common in England, and registered, were banned, confiscated, and tube fed shotguns and .22 rifles had their magazines crimped so no more than just a few rounds could be loaded. One gunsmith lamented as he crimped a shotgun as this was not why he became a gunsmith, to destroy perfectly good firearms.
Going back farther, the government was so worried about “REDS” that they fabricated a reason, “CRIME!” in 1919, to start registering guns.
After Dunkirk, so few firearms were in Britain that they asked Americans to “Send a Gun To Defend A British Home!” No doubt if the Nazis had invaded, the British citizenry would have met them on the beaches armed with those great old military weapons of the commoners. the Hay Rake, scythe, and Pitch fork.
But how much can you use? I'm reminded of the lyrics, My Maserati does 185, I lost my license, now I don't drive'.
****reasonable choice of legal weaponry, including Accuracy International sniper rifles if you have £23K to spare....****
Reasonable choice would be $300 and “face to face” transaction....without government. 23K ($32,200) is not “reasonable”.
What about pump and lever actions? Are they restricted like semi-auto?