Good News (hopefully)
Something worth knowing...
Yesterday in parliament
October 24 session:
Replica weapons
Television, cinema, theatre, museums and battle re-enactment societies will not be caught by a replica weapons clampdown in the violent crime reduction bill, home office minister Baroness Scotland of Asthal pledged. Government amendments would protect such "specific interests". They would allow a person to manufacture, modify, sell or import realistic imitation firearms "for the purposes of museums or galleries, for TV, film or theatrical production or for historical re-enactments" and would exempt de-activated firearms and certain antiques from the definition of a "realistic imitation firearm".
http://politics.guardian.co.uk/commo...600157,00.html
Doubtless the Gun Control (freak) Network and suchlike will kick up a fuss, but we may be in the clear here for continued deact collecting in the UK.
They may have applied a rare bit of evidence based reasoning and recognised that 99% of the problem with misuse of replica guns is to do with cheap replicas of modern handguns getting into irresponsible hands. Deacts held by collectors and expensive replicas used by reenactors were never the problem in the first place due to their expense and/or the maturity of their owners. A 'catch all' law would also have led to ridiculous anomalies such as a replica Civil War cannon being more legally restricted than a working modern bolt-action rifle.
I suppose this means that modern weapon replicas will no longer be available to collectors for collecting's sake, e.g. the Japanese FG-42 replicas. But it could be a lot worse.
Fingers crossed.
Mark
Something worth knowing...
Yesterday in parliament
October 24 session:
Replica weapons
Television, cinema, theatre, museums and battle re-enactment societies will not be caught by a replica weapons clampdown in the violent crime reduction bill, home office minister Baroness Scotland of Asthal pledged. Government amendments would protect such "specific interests". They would allow a person to manufacture, modify, sell or import realistic imitation firearms "for the purposes of museums or galleries, for TV, film or theatrical production or for historical re-enactments" and would exempt de-activated firearms and certain antiques from the definition of a "realistic imitation firearm".
http://politics.guardian.co.uk/commo...600157,00.html
Doubtless the Gun Control (freak) Network and suchlike will kick up a fuss, but we may be in the clear here for continued deact collecting in the UK.
They may have applied a rare bit of evidence based reasoning and recognised that 99% of the problem with misuse of replica guns is to do with cheap replicas of modern handguns getting into irresponsible hands. Deacts held by collectors and expensive replicas used by reenactors were never the problem in the first place due to their expense and/or the maturity of their owners. A 'catch all' law would also have led to ridiculous anomalies such as a replica Civil War cannon being more legally restricted than a working modern bolt-action rifle.
I suppose this means that modern weapon replicas will no longer be available to collectors for collecting's sake, e.g. the Japanese FG-42 replicas. But it could be a lot worse.
Fingers crossed.
Mark
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