New Home Office rules place citizens almost completely at the mercy of criminals and punish most crimes with little more than a traffic ticket.
While violent crime is on the rise in Britain, the police have decided to throw in the towel and give up on arresting and punishing most criminals. Under new guidelines issued to police by the Home Office, crimes which do not result in personal injury or death should now be dealt with not by arrest and punishment, but with the issuance of a 'caution,' a criminal citation only slightly worse than a traffic ticket.…
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76 - zingzing
oh yeah. forgot. you can be a cowboy then. just don't leave texas.
77 - sr
Dave, After checking the link's on the .577 Boxer I looked it up in my Illustrated Book of GUNS. Would not want to be at the receiving end of this Hog. Think this thing would take down an African elephant. As for Barbie Doll Boxer she would not know which end the barrel is on.
Dave, do you belong to SASS. (Single Action Shooting Society)? I also own and shoot an 1860 44cal Army and the 1851 44cal Navy cap and ball revolvers. Use black powder only. Love all that smoke. Not the clean up after. Are you familar with the 44cal black powder Walker Revolver? It's a beast. It's on my want list.
And to think the Brit's need a licence to posess a squirt gun.
zingzing, at 50 paces to take a bull's head off it would require something on the order of the 50 cal. Another gun on my wish list. YEE HAW. sr
78 - Dave Nalle
Dave, After checking the link's on the .577 Boxer I looked it up in my Illustrated Book of GUNS. Would not want to be at the receiving end of this Hog. Think this thing would take down an African elephant. As for Barbie Doll Boxer she would not know which end the barrel is on.
I think that because of the shortness of the cartridge it wouldn't be that powerful. Probably not much more powerful than a .44 magnum. The rifle version is a .577/450 which will shoot through just about anything.
Dave, do you belong to SASS. (Single Action Shooting Society)?
Yep, though I don't have time to go to many shooting events these days.
I also own and shoot an 1860 44cal Army and the 1851 44cal Navy cap and ball revolvers. Use black powder only. Love all that smoke. Not the clean up after. Are you familar with the 44cal black powder Walker Revolver? It's a beast. It's on my want list.
I have a 1851 Navy and a '47 Walker. Both reproductions for shooting safety. The Walker might be better for clubbing people to death than shooting. For a cap and ball pistol I prefer a 44 cal Remington. The action is a lot smoother, plus it will take an adapted cylinder and shoot .45LC, which is quite cool.
Dave
79 - MCH
Any truth to the rumor that a gun is just an extension of the penis?
80 - Zardoz
The gun is good. The penis is evil. The penis shoots seeds, and makes new life, and poisons the earth with a plague of men, as once it was. But the gun shoots death, and purifies the earth of the filth of brutals. Go forth and kill!
(This blast from the past brought to you by the Surrealist Commenters Society.)
81 - Dave Nalle
I do have a pistol with a 12 inch barrel.
Dave
82 - sr
Dave, will discuss more with you on SASS later.
MCH. Im at a loss on this one. Please explain the penis gun extender. Is this one of those kinky sexual space invader things. Let me know dude.
This is my night to go forth and kill with my licenced squirt gun. YEE HAW.
83 - Nick
Can't agree with this article more. I'm a British ex-pat now living in the US. I value dearly the ability to defend myself, my family and my property. In the UK, if you find a burglar in your house in the middle of the night, you have to basically bend over and take up the arse. If you attack the burglar or, God forbid, he falls down your stairs or accidentally cuts himself on your property, he can sue you. In the US, find someone in your house after dark that isn't supposed to be there, you shoot them. The cops will come but they are more likely to pat you on the back than take you into custody.
The anti-gun lobbyists in the UK that spout off about the US gun problems don't know what they're talking about. They look at places like NYC and LA where crime rates are higher. Little do they realize that those are the places in the US where the gun laws are almost as restrictive as those in the UK (eg. only the criminals have the guns). If you go to states like Vermont where everybody can (and often do) carry firearms both openly and concealed, you find that these states have the lowest crime rates. In Texas where I now live, I don't have to worry too much about being burgled or having my car stereo stolen or being mugged. Why? Because the criminals know that law-abiding citizens have the right to shoot back!
I know there will always be those anti-gun people who insist things are better if only the criminals have the guns. Well that's fine and they can be happy if they live in the UK or California where they have to have bars on their windows to keep people out. Me, personally, I will stick to gun-friendly states. After all, I would rather have it and not need it than need it and not have it.
84 - Dave Nalle
Written with the wisdom of experience, Nick.
You know that right now in Texas there's actually a law which says that if someone invades our property we have a 'duty to retreat' before taking any measures to stop the invading criminal. In other words, we can defend our property, but only when forced and given no ohter choice. They're supposed to be fixing it this legislative session, so what we don't have to let criminals control the situation when they break in.
Dave
85 - Clavos
In the US, find someone in your house after dark that isn't supposed to be there, you shoot them. The cops will come but they are more likely to pat you on the back than take you into custody.
True, thank the Constitution, but the mopes still can (and sometimes will) try to sue you.