British Home Office launches a public consultation

Sika98k

The BHO has launched a public consultation on whether sound moderators should no longer be licenced . It is deemed that they do not pose a threat to public safety. Not that they ever did.

Wouldn’t it be great if TPTB in this country would wake, smell the coffee and follow suit.

otmmyboy2

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/2058337408/british-home-office-launches-a-public-consultation

That's excellent news, good for them if it happens!

As it is only recently other countries are lessening their restrictions on firearms and ranges too, Slovenia a couple years ago completely deregulated suppressors, so now they can be bought by anyone over the counter.

Shockingly their crime stats haven't gotten worse as a result of that.

Italy was loosening their gun laws back in 2018/2019, Lithuania was debating doing so in their parliament last year.

And the other day I saw Finland is looking to loosen range restrictions and build a further 330 ranges, to supplement the currently 670 in the country!

Excellent strides being made elsewhere alright.

Also, some odd thing about the countries mentioned above, they all(bar Italy as of 2023) have lower crime rates than Ireland.

Hell, the Czech republic, where normal everyday people can get a concealed carry licence (after a lengthy written test, psychometric test, firearms practical examination and accuracy test), and many do so as part of getting their firearms licence(it just involves ticking the CC box like we do for our driver licence categories), and it is number 8 on the crime index.

We are currently 33 as of 2023, just slightly beaten out by Albania...

For reference Ukraine is the next most crime ridden country, then the UK.

https://www.numbeo.com/crime/rankings_by_country.jsp?title=2023&region=150

Grizzly 45

And the UK they are also now looking at licensing like here Crossbows as well!

https://www.irishnews.com/news/uk/government-considering-tougher-crossbow-laws-JZAAQO5G2FI63GKOWLLQCB2UEY/

When they aren't banning something like types of dogs instead of the irresponsible idiots retro breeding to make them aggressive or proposing licensing something else. They throw out some crumb like this until professional hysterics and hoplophobes like Gill Marsh Andrews of the Gun Control Network get to do her professional grieving for "the memory of the children of Dunblane" routine in front of a select committee of wooden-headed MPs and they at best end up unchanged or at worst banned like the MARS rifles. Quite frankly, the UK like most of its former colonies are lost causes of firearms laws.[Bar the US of course!]

Sad that a country that had more liberal gun ownership laws than the USA 130 years ago, went to an utterly paranoid nigh-on police state, a crime-ridden and political police force more concerned with arresting people for saying mean things on Twitter and dancing in Gay pride events than dealing with machete-wielding teenage thugs in central London.

Grizzly 45

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121802902#Comment_121802902

Ah! Stop you now with all these positive statistics and what them furriners in the EU do!!! Shure don't you know if the Irish Govt so much as loosens our legislation by a paragraph [Unless they are beaten into it by the courts]. The "terrorists and criminals" will pounce and there will be anarchy and blood on our streets and the Irish state will fall.