What do I need to do to get this? It reads on the site like I can just order it. Is it necessary to have a licence or anything to buy this air pistol? I live in Scotland.
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In Scotland we need to register to buy air weapons. If you already had them you could register before the 31st of December last year for the ones you had but from the 1st of January this year you would be asked for your license to buy them. I emailed to see what conditions were needed and they have to be kept in a lockable container (doesn't have to be a gun cabinet, a cupboard would do but they have to be locked away. I'm still waiting on my license to come through and my mate only got his a couple of days ago so I wouldn't hold your breath.
As others have said, that thing is a 'toy', it might look like a revolver but not much use really and you have to put down why you want/need the air weapons. Plinking is acceptable but if you have a small garden you might not get the license, its all a bit of a mess really.
BugOut66 wrote:
I will email the company to see how it falls into the lifelike imitations category.
I would suggest asking the police rather than the company, if you can prove the police gave you wrong information you'd be better off than if the company did, it's ultimately your responsibility to stay within the law and the laws surrounding those are pretty complicated, companies do get them wrong sometimes.
Another option is ask an airsoft club, they deal with those laws all the time so they know more about them than most, that gun isn't airsoft but it will fit into some of the same categories.
That is not dead which can eternal lie, and with strange aeons even death may die.
Thanks, I have emailed (just in the past ten mins) multiple gun shops. all of them, up and down the country, sell these lifelike pistols so I don't see how they can be illegal. I won't contact the police directly but I do have a few cop friends so I will ask them conversationally.
Myself and a fellow new-prepper friend are going to check out our local gun club also. See what they have to say about it.
BugOut66 wrote:Thanks, I have emailed (just in the past ten mins) multiple gun shops. all of them, up and down the country, sell these lifelike pistols so I don't see how they can be illegal. I won't contact the police directly but I do have a few cop friends so I will ask them conversationally.
Myself and a fellow new-prepper friend are going to check out our local gun club also. See what they have to say about it.
From 1 October 2007, section 36 Violent Crime Reduction Act 2006 created an offence to manufacture, bring into or cause to be brought into Great Britain, or sell realistic imitation firearms. It also made it an offence to modify an imitation firearm to make it realistic."
If this is the law then why are lookalike air pistols being sold readily all over the country?
Then just to make things even more confusing we have this:
"Paintball guns are a type of air weapon. The Home Office regard self-loading or pump action rifled airguns (including paintball guns) as outside the scope of the Firearms Act"
Its an expensive toy, you could buy lots of useful stuff with 200 sheets.
The VCR Act and the Firearms Act are two different things.
You can be legal under the Firearms and illegal under the VCR.
For example, any air rifle (or air powered long gun) under 12ft/lb is not covered by the Firearms Act.
However, if that airgun looks like an AK47 it could then fall foul of the VCR as a RIF.
Heres where it gets confusing, you can have (buy, sell, loan or hire) a RIF if you engage in certain activities. These include, but are not limited to, Airsoft, Battle Re-enactment and Stage or Film productions.
Basically, if you want an air rifle then buy one that looks like an air rifle.
Don't bother with air pistols for anything other then target shooting or plinking Never think that an airsoft gun is a good idea for anything other then airsoft
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ForgeCorvus wrote:Its an expensive toy, you could buy lots of useful stuff with 200 sheets.
The VCR Act and the Firearms Act are two different things.
You can be legal under the Firearms and illegal under the VCR.
For example, any air rifle (or air powered long gun) under 12ft/lb is not covered by the Firearms Act.
However, if that airgun looks like an AK47 it could then fall foul of the VCR as a RIF.
Heres where it gets confusing, you can have (buy, sell, loan or hire) a RIF if you engage in certain activities. These include, but are not limited to, Airsoft, Battle Re-enactment and Stage or Film productions.
Basically, if you want an air rifle then buy one that looks like an air rifle.
Don't bother with air pistols for anything other then target shooting or plinking Never think that an airsoft gun is a good idea for anything other then airsoft
This. ^
That is not dead which can eternal lie, and with strange aeons even death may die.
Don't bother with air pistols for anything other then target shooting or plinking
Initially... this is all I would want the pistol for. I go clay pigeon shooting occasionally (lucky enough to live within a mile of a farm that offers this as a service) and I'm getting tempted to buy my own shotgun and get licensed up for it and all that.
The air pistol would mainly (only) be for shooting paper targets, and - just because I want one.
Don't bother with air pistols for anything other then target shooting or plinking
Initially... this is all I would want the pistol for. I go clay pigeon shooting occasionally (lucky enough to live within a mile of a farm that offers this as a service) and I'm getting tempted to buy my own shotgun and get licensed up for it and all that.
The air pistol would mainly (only) be for shooting paper targets, and - just because I want one.
Have a look into the Scottish licensing laws, a shotgun certificate is pretty easy to get, and if you're considering it anyway there was a rule when they were bringing in the airgun licences that if you had an FAC or SGC you wouldn't have to get your airgun certificate until you renewed your other gun licences, probably won't apply since you don't already have it but worth checking, I think they did it to take some of the pressure off the police so they didn't have to do everyone at once.
That is not dead which can eternal lie, and with strange aeons even death may die.
Don't bother with air pistols for anything other then target shooting or plinking
Initially... this is all I would want the pistol for. I go clay pigeon shooting occasionally (lucky enough to live within a mile of a farm that offers this as a service) and I'm getting tempted to buy my own shotgun and get licensed up for it and all that.
The air pistol would mainly (only) be for shooting paper targets, and - just because I want one.
Have a look into the Scottish licensing laws, a shotgun certificate is pretty easy to get, and if you're considering it anyway there was a rule when they were bringing in the airgun licences that if you had an FAC or SGC you wouldn't have to get your airgun certificate until you renewed your other gun licences, probably won't apply since you don't already have it but worth checking, I think they did it to take some of the pressure off the police so they didn't have to do everyone at once.
Are you sure ? My mate has his SGC and had to apply, at least he was under the impression that he did. I know you can 'link' your air gun certificate to an existing SGC/FAC.
