who likes guns?!
 

Tastes differ, I dream about quite different things...
:D

I've always dreamed of shooting zombies in the head with high powered sniper rifles, automatics or pistols. Unfortunately all I can legally own are air pistols and air rifles. I have both, but am unsure of their undead stopping potential.

Seriously? I thought you could have shotguns there too!.

You have to jam the barrel through the eye socket before you pull the trigger. I just don't have the guts to test that theory though. What if I'm wrong?

Outlawd weapons in england.

Any hand pistol that fires live ammunition
Any automatic or semi automatic rifle
Any sub machine gun
Any machine gun

Weapons allowed shot gun and a bolt action rifle.

However there is exclusions and exemptions.

Also note scots law differs from english law.

Jeez.. are you guys allowed to own big rocks? j/k :D

I am interested in the difference between English and Scots firearms laws..

.. and what is the difference between sub-machine gun and machine gun?

Well technically (not necessarily legally) its caliber. Generaly SMGs fire bullets common to hand guns (.45, 9mm) while MGs fire bullets common to rifles (7.62 etc).

As said past times, we europeans look at american laws & constitutionnal rights about firearms as a really strange thing.

Well, the only one I currently have is a sort of single shot trumpet pistol from XiX century, pure Oncle Scroogle style; it could fire a bullet with the size of a golf ball, but the normal ammo should be a spread of several smaller ones; I won't try it for sure, as I suspect that it should be the last stupid thing made during my life.

Huh? DO you even know what you just said? :) That is funny! I think you are trying to be funny, right? :)

-S

Among the many misdeeds of the British rule in India, history will look upon the act depriving a whole nation of arms as the blackest.

Mohandas Gandhi

Sigmund Freud, the father of modern psychoanalysis, stated the following: "A fear of weapons is a sign of retarded sexual and emotional maturity." Sigmund Freud, "General Introduction to Psychoanalysis".

-S

Hoplophobia, (pronounced HOP-li-fobia), from the Greek hoplon, or weapon, is a phobia identified by firearms instructor Colonel Jeff Cooper in 1962. His intent was to satirically use a clinical term to bring public recognition of the irrational fear of firearms and other forms of weaponry such as knives or explosives. He stated that "the most common manifestation of hoplophobia is the idea that instruments possess a will of their own, apart from that of their user". Hoplophobia is deemed to be a cultural side effect of those who engage in the primordial human belief systems that anthropologists refer to as "animism", or the belief that inanimate objects can hold spirits that can effect human actions.

http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/bjs/glance/viort.gif

Anyone want to guess what happened between 1992 and 1995 to cause the dramatic drop in Americas violent crime rates?

-S

http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/bjs/glance/viort.htm

As well as police and medical checks you also have to prove to the police that you have a good reason to own a shotgun or firearm certificate. I imagine self defence or zombie invasion don't quite qualify :)

I will agree that any freedom requires some responsibility. On the other hand, I live in a state that is larger than the main island of the British Isles, yet has a total population of just two million people. A friend who lives just outside of Salt Lake City owns horses and has problems with mountain lions. Dick Cheney was criticized for supporting gun ownership, but no one ever points out that he is from Wyoming, a state much larger than Utah yet with less than half the population. Where he's from it's possible to have a bear-or a burglar-come through the window, and the nearest cop is 300 miles away.

I don't own a passport or speak another language, both of which I sometimes regret. On the other hand, I live in a country that is larger than all of western Europe combined. The nearest large city from mine-Las Vegas-is a six-hour drive away, at 100 kph. The only country I could possibly visit without making an all-day flight is Mexico, and they are more than eager to learn English; except of course the ones who are here, and they want us all to speak Spanish.

I agree that places like New York may need strong gun control; we don't, and for that reason I stand against national gun control laws.