Call for airgun reclassification (From Daily Echo)
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Call for airgun reclassification
1:40pm Friday 20th May 2011 in Readers' Letters
IN view of the latest airgun attack on a young cat, surely it is now time to put airguns in tha same category as other guns and class them as dangerous weapons?
At the moment airguns can be bought without needing a licence and given to children as presents-in fact I know of one mother who actually taught her young son to shoot pigeons in the trees from her bedroom window.
Airguns should be treated as all other types of guns and only be made available on licence to responsible adults, before someone is maimed or worse killed.
They can be just as lethal in the wrong hands whether fired by accident or not.
MRS H LEWIS, Chandler’s Ford.
captain_chaos says...
1:01am Mon 30 May 11