BB Guns: Threat or Menace?
Ball-bearing guns used by children could be banned after a string of cases involving serious injuries.
The pistols, which fire plastic pellets, are not classed as firearms because they are considered too low-powered to be fatal.
I would have thought they weren’t classed as firearms because they’re not firearms, being powered by a puff of air rather than an exothermic chemical reaction.
Conservative MP Anne McIntosh, who came near the top of last week’s annual ballot of MPs selected to introduce their own legislation, now hopes to pilot a private member’s bill banning the guns. ‘If these things are shot at a child’s eyes or face they could have serious consequences – they might blind a child or kill them,’ she said.
You had to know somebody would play the “you’ll shoot your eye out, kid!” card.
The UK already has an almost total ban on private firearm ownership. Now they want to ban kitchen knives and BB guns. I’m expecting the Brits to pass a pointy-stick ban sometime this fall.
May 30th, 2005 at 10:06 am
Perhaps the UK should make all kinds of… compression illegal.
This eliminates compressed air launching a BB, potential energy locked up in the hydrocarbons in gunpowder, etc.
Make photosynthesis illegal! We all know where that glycerol comes from, even if we don’t want to admit it.
As a side note, banning photosynthesis would also have the beneficial side effect of eliminating all sharp kitchen knife production…
May 30th, 2005 at 11:52 am
What if they have a banana?
May 31st, 2005 at 9:24 am
It’s a good thing you can’t poke someone’s eye out with your finger…..
June 1st, 2005 at 6:43 pm
These aren’t just BB guns – they are Airsoft guns!
Yours,
Wince