[Jagdgewehr]

PARENTS arming their children with airguns are setting them on the path towards violent crime, a gun control campaigner warned today.

LOL!

What utter foolishness.

[David Hunter]

The media are responsible for this push to license, and no doubt eventually prohibit airguns. I was watching the BBC North-East region evening news earlier, and they were giving extensive airtime to the GCN and various other individuals with a serious anti-airgun bias. If anyone is hurt with an airgun its splashed across the newspapers and regional TV instantly.

Recently, I saw a BBC TV documentary calling for a certain make of airgun to be banned immediately, because some gangsters have found a way to adapt them to fire .22 calibre rounds. In the TV program they mentioned the case of a man who was killed with one of these adapted air-pistols last year in London. However, they didn't say it had been illegally adapted to fire real bullets, they just said he was killed with a lethal air pistol! The misinformation being put out by the media is amazing.