Hierzulande diskutieren wir derzeit über die Forderung nach einem Verbot des Großkaliberschießens. Im Vereinigten Königreich sind die Waffengegner schon weiter. GK- und KK-Kurzwaffen sind seit Jahren verboten, Langwaffen gibt es nur noch als Repetierer und Einzellader auf eine restriktive WBK. (So müssen britische Waffenbesitzer beim WBK-Antrag z.B. einen Grundrechtsverzicht unterschreiben. 
Und das im Land der Magna Charta! 
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Und in Schottland plant man nun einen Airgun Ban:
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As you may be aware, The Calman Commission in Scotland was tasked with finding how better the Scottish Parliament can serve the needs of the Scottish people as a devolved government. One of its findings has been to recommend that the Scottish Parliament have control over the laws pertaining to airguns. The Scottish Parliament has made it clear it would use these new powers to ban airguns in Scotland. Obviously these new laws will cause serious problems for airgun enthusiasts in Scotland, and seriously jeopardise sporting shooting.
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http://www.airgunforum.net/agf/index.php?showtopic=50093
Weitere Links zum Thema:
http://www.shootingtimes.co.uk/news/369585/Sc…an_airguns.html
http://www.airgununiverse.co.uk/forum/site-new…petition-92800/
http://www.airgunforum.co.uk/forums/showthread.php?t=78871
Man lese nur einmal, wie in der dortigen Mainstreampresse argumentiert wird:
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WHEN two-year-old Andrew Morton was killed four years ago after being shot with an airgun, there were widespread demands for a crackdown on the deadly weapons.
Andrew was being carried by his 13-year-old brother in Glasgow's Easterhouse estate when he was hit by a pellet in the head. An unemployed 27-year-old man, who had been taking pot shots from the window of his flat, was later sentenced to life imprisonment for murder.
Andrew's parents collected 11,000 signatures calling for a ban on airguns.Regulations were tightened in the wake of Andrew's death – the minimum age for possession of an air weapon was raised from 17 to 18 and firearms dealers were required to register with the police.
But moves to go further – for instance, piloting a licensing system in Scotland that would have restricted airguns to those involved in pest control or shooting clubs – were rebuffed by the Home Office.However, after the publication of the cross-party Calman report this month, it now looks as if responsibility for legislation on airguns is going to be transferred from Westminster to Holyrood – and the SNP will act to ban them.
Despite previously opposing such a transfer of power, the UK government has now signalled it is ready to agree to the move.And justice secretary Kenny MacAskill has promised he would use the new powers to bring in a ban on air weapons.
Exceptions would be made for those who use airguns in the course of their job – for example, farmers using them for pest control – and registered gun clubs. But general sales would be outlawed and an amnesty would probably be declared in a bid to gather in most of the 400,000 air weapons thought to be held in Scotland.Three Scots have died and more than 1,150 injured in airgun incidents over the past nine years.
Just a few weeks after Andrew Morton's death in 2005, a six-year-old boy in Edinburgh was shot in the head with an airgun near his home in Pennywell Medway, Muirhouse. Tyler Scott was playing outside with his eight-year-old sister Jodie when he felt a sharp pain. Doctors said if the pellet had hit him a millimetre to the right, he too could have been killed.
And in September last year, a young mother and her baby daughter had a lucky escape after a bus they were travelling in came under fire. Lynsey Wade, 20, and one-year-old daughter Rihanna were on the X95 First bus service approaching Edinburgh Royal Infirmary when the window they were sitting next to was shattered by what appeared to be an airgun pellet.[...]
http://news.scotsman.com/comment/Ian-Sw…guns.5395232.jp
In Deutschland sind es noch die furchtbar pösen Beretta-Pistolen, die unbedingt verboten werden müssen. In Schottland könnten demnächst schon Luftgewehre dran sein, sofern sich die Scottish National Party durchsetzt: Totalverbot von Druckluftwaffen mit restriktiven Ausnahmen für staatlich anerkannte Schützenvereine sowie Jäger und Landwirte.
Möge die Entwicklung in Schottland all jenen deutschen LWBs zur Warnung dienen, die sich noch Illusionen über die wahren Absichten der Anti-Waffen-Lobby machen. Zu vernünftigen und sachorientierten Kompromissen werden unsere Gegner kaum bereit sein. Vor einem Totalverbot jeglicher Waffen und waffenähnlicher Gegenstände werden sie keine Ruhe geben. Daher sind "Friedensangebote" in dieser Richtung aussichtslos.
