They only Suck if you're into Proper Assault-Weapons and Proper Pistols
NADEEM
After the Hungerford massacre where that moron Micheal Ryan,tested out his weaponry out on the local population and killed 17 people-seriously injuring 30 or more people.He was reported to have also used on of his Israeli fragmentation-type hand grenades during the massacre,but this has never been established.
The government decided to ban assault weapons and some types of shotguns that had a barrell length less than 24", although some managed to get past this ban, because some police-forces didn't enforce shotguns as much as Assault-rifles,semi-automatic/pump-action centrefire rifles.
Also this law was so stupid and enept that British shooters wrote to American firearms manufacturers and told them of the change in legislation-so the Americans sent us AR-15s,AR-10s;etc,but they were made without the semi-auto mechanism-and replaced with a bolt-action/straight-pull mechanism instead-making them 100% UK legal.
The UK Straight-pull Assault-rifle was born in 1988/1989.
9 years later in Dunblane, Thomas Hamilton killed 17 Kids and their teacher-and later himself, which prompted the antis from the government and civillian population to ban all centrefire and later rimfire handguns.Like the an 9 years before,the Brits started to acquire long-barrelled revolvers and semi-autos and pressed them into service, as surrogate action-pistols.Pistol-calibre lever-action rifles were also used as surrogate action-pistols and semi-automatic rimfire rifles replaced standard rimfire-pistols as the new handgun of choice on the mainland-but the others in the Isle of Man and on the Channel-Islands were still allowed to keep their handguns.
In the Uk we can only have Black-powder revolvers at a normal-length and these are good but they are no .38 S&W M10 or M29 .44 magnum or even a 9mm semi-auto.Buntline revolvers are also permitted for Cowboy-action disciplines,as well.
With the invention of the CO2-powered replicas and airsoft replicas, the UK shooters have adopted these for the newly-formed discipline GPP (Gas-powered Practical Pistol.) OK so they're no 1911A1,1991A1 or Sig-Sauer P226, but at least its better than nothing or no shooting at all.
The joke is that with pump or semi-auto shotguns, our Italian and American friends have increased the barrel-lengths on these "ASSAULT WEAPONS" and now they are totally UK-legal%.Examples include:The SPAS-12guage, All the Benelli shotguns and even the Saiga m-12 12 guage.We have also got increased lengths on riot-shotguns and can pass-off some models as UK legal shotties-if one knows the right cop or dealer.
NADEEM-go on the following websites:
www.rimfiremagic.co.uk
www.rusmilitary.com/html/firearms
You might enjoy what you see, but if you don't visit the Isle of Man or Jersey-because over there citizens are still allowed to own all types of handguns, but not us UK main-landers.