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Timber_sub12

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Just been to pick some pellets up on the way home from work, stopped at a relatively well stock shop picked up a few tins.

There was a chap buying an article just paying as I went in. When we left we came out the industrial estate and the same chap was stood on the grass verge outside a petrol station deboxing the rifle and showing his mate at the side of the road.

And people wonder why you can’t get permission etc.
 
The worrying thing about this guy is he doesn’t realise what he is playing with. The gun is a firearm and he is advertising the fact. If he doesn’t then one wonders how much of legal requirements he will conform to.
 
Morse said:
The worrying thing about this guy is he doesn’t realise what he is playing with. The gun is a firearm and he is advertising the fact. If he doesn’t then one wonders how much of legal requirements he will conform to.
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Most people need to be better informed about our hobby.

Not least the muppets who pull stunts like that!

THEN if he goes off and does something stupid with his new "toy" - as he seems to regard it . . . . . .

Likely to add more weigtht to calls for bans, Registration etc.

How can we help?
No idea, sorry.
 
Timber_sub12 said:
Just been to pick some pellets up on the way home from work, stopped at a relatively well stock shop picked up a few tins.

There was a chap buying an article just paying as I went in. When we left we came out the industrial estate and the same chap was stood on the grass verge outside a petrol station deboxing the rifle and showing his mate at the side of the road.

And people wonder why you can’t get permission etc.
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I had a Police Officer do it with my .22lr here


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When there in person the lampost is closer to the road than as this pic shows.

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He stopped me walking down the path next to dual carraige way ( the only path from my town to the next village ) and said i could have had people reporting me for carrying a rifle on the path (it was in a gunslip and at the side of my body facing away from the road ) .
He had parked his Police 4x4 across the road and stopped me at the lampost on the right .

He took it form the gunslip and was waving it about looking for the serial number to see if it matched my records at licesing .I tried to put myself in the way so passing drivers and walkers could not see it .

He was a Firearms owner so you would think he would have known better .

Its not just members of the Public that have little common sense when dealing with Firearms.
 
A while back, I popped into my local RFD, and there were a couple of 'youths' inside, drooling over the replica BB pistols. One of the staff members mentioned that they couldn't sell an air pistol or rifle to anyone under the age of 18, and without appropriate ID. They were chilled enough about it, thanked him and left. As I left, they were hanging around outside the shop and approached me, asking if I'd do them a favour and buy one of the pistols on their behalf, and they would gift me £20 for helping them out. I politely but firmly declined, explaining why, and again, they were polite enough about it, but remained outside the shop as I left.

I then decided to pop back inside the shop to make the staff aware, just to clear my conscience. The owner thanked me and said that they would keep an eye on the CCTV outside the shop and look out for any similar interactions with the youngsters.
 
TR158 said:
A while back, I popped into my local RFD, and there were a couple of 'youths' inside, drooling over the replica BB pistols. One of the staff members mentioned that they couldn't sell an air pistol or rifle to anyone under the age of 18, and without appropriate ID. They were chilled enough about it, thanked him and left. As I left, they were hanging around outside the shop and approached me, asking if I'd do them a favour and buy one of the pistols on their behalf, and they would gift me £20 for helping them out. I politely but firmly declined, explaining why, and again, they were polite enough about it, but remained outside the shop as I left.

I then decided to pop back inside the shop to make the staff aware, just to clear my conscience. The owner thanked me and said that they would keep an eye on the CCTV outside the shop and look out for any similar interactions with the youngsters.
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Yeah I understand that I can’t say much. I got one of my mates mums to buy me my first air rifle in 1993. It was a cheap Chinese break barrel out of the ad mag. It was £20 brand-new
 
I had been given possession of an "Original" Model 25 air rifle, it had a broken rear sight so I took it to an RFD in Exeter for repair. The shop is on a main road and there is a car park to the rear of the parade of shops. I felt quite conscious of the fact that I had to walk fron the car park onto the main road with a rifle. I did not have a slip for it but wrapped it in a large towel to hide it from prying eyes, I made my way swiftly to the shop with the wrapped rifle and sorted the repair with them. When I collected the rifle after the repair I bought an old tatty slip from them to cover the rifle and still felt very aware of carrying a rifle in public and couldn't get back to my car quick enough to put the rifle back in the boot of the car along with the new Remington Pest Controller that I had somehow purchased at the same time.
 
C220w205 said:
I had been given possession of an "Original" Model 25 air rifle, it had a broken rear sight so I took it to an RFD in Exeter for repair. The shop is on a main road and there is a car park to the rear of the parade of shops. I felt quite conscious of the fact that I had to walk fron the car park onto the main road with a rifle. I did not have a slip for it but wrapped it in a large towel to hide it from prying eyes, I made my way swiftly to the shop with the wrapped rifle and sorted the repair with them. When I collected the rifle after the repair I bought an old tatty slip from them to cover the rifle and still felt very aware of carrying a rifle in public and couldn't get back to my car quick enough to put the rifle back in the boot of the car along with the new Remington Pest Controller that I had somehow purchased at the same time.
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Yes, but in wrapping it you showed you care and attention. You didn’t march round with it on your shoulder unfortunately common sense doesn’t exist anymore.
 
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