Thread: Shooting: The sport all of us enjoy - do your part in preserving the ability to do so

Originally Posted by Sideshow

Sorry I'm late to the party, but what if you and your wife and kids shoot....so now do you have to have on each licence all the firearms in your safe. This is a cluster Fcuk!!
So your picking up a gun for your mate to meet later for duck shooting, you have to leave and he brings it back to your home so you can lock it away.....how are they going to enforce this

Enforce through punnishment,both in the form of prosecution if you are caught and in the fee for applying for each and every gun you want.
Well...only if they think that you need it.

"You have a 243,why do you need a 6.5?"

This is the system most of Europe deals with,I cannot even take my Girlfreinds Rifle to the Gunsmith,even though we own identical models in the same caliber.Forget hunting with it too.

The application fee will in the begining rather small,to encourage people to comply.Then it will creep ever slowly up to discourage people from owning large numbers of firearms.Which at the mid point the Police will limit new applicants to "X" number of Long arms in "Y" calibers only.Untill most people can only own a handful of firearms,that require procurement fees of hundreds of Dollars,anual security inspections,compulsory club membership,mental health asessment etc.

Don't think that will happen?

In the 1980's in the UK you could own a Brengun and shoot it at the Range.Now they are licencing Air Rifles in Scotland.