LeeH Posted December 3, 2006 Report Share Posted December 3, 2006 Does anyone know if most handguns (obviously before the ban) were legally held by people living in Towns & Cities, or by people living in rural locations? We know most of them are held ( ) by those ******* in cities now ... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cranfield Posted December 3, 2006 Report Share Posted December 3, 2006 Only the licensing authorities would have that information. Most legal handgun owners belonged to Gun Clubs and they were established in most areas. I suspect the split between town and rural owners was about even. You might also be surprised at the amount of illegal handguns in the possession of rural dwellers. Most of the armed robbers in Kent seem to have very rural addresses. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LeeH Posted December 3, 2006 Author Report Share Posted December 3, 2006 I 'spect they can afford 'em I'm curious as I was replying to the BASC membership thread and it occurred to me that there was a less than obvious social aspect to the ban in '97. Maybe I'm just beng naive here, but the tories were never liked by the inner cities much ( got this from growing up in the North West in the 1980's .. ) and I just wondered if another tory win would have had urban gun owners taking to the streets ..? Only partly serious here Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peter_HMR Posted December 4, 2006 Report Share Posted December 4, 2006 I'm a bit confused by all this i know there was a ban in the uk but are they allowed now? They were brought back in over here about 2 years ago now i think and since then alot of people have gotten them Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
il cacciatore Posted December 4, 2006 Report Share Posted December 4, 2006 Banned in 1997 and still banned. They will be forever banned. Only case in which you may own one is if your a vet or someone else who works with animals (a professional deer stalker was granted one) and need one for humane dispatch but even then your likely to be restricted to a 2 shot one. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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