The bureaucrats in UK decided that the ownership of crossbow must be regulated a license will be required for old and new owners I must stress that the crime rate in UK related to crossbows it is 2 recorded incidents in the last 10 years it is a futile effort and again a way to show some kind of control by the state so the middle class moron will be distracted from the scores of knives welding criminals (local and imported) that run our streets due to the very poor job of politicians and police force .Needless to say I can see a rise in 3D launching tools be made by those who enjoy civil disobedience as an alternative
UK to license the crossbow
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biglazycamper
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Wait until the authorities find out what can be done with a simple piece of brick, or a stone.
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@Sambo low power pistol crossbows for the back garden can be used in ANY urban area.
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David
Zunga
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I'm guessing breaking tree branches off with a point is the next thing to be made a crime. Maybe a national campaign to nerf all rocks, sidewalks, concrete structures and anything else harder than a UK politician's member. Absolutely ridiculous!
Cheers Jim
Edit: I remember a news article perhaps a year ago about some guy losing his mind and shooting a UK cop with a pistol crossbow in the leg. I'm wondering if this is a delayed response to that incident. Canada saw a similar anti gun movement after a mass shooting in the Maritimes/far east coast.
Cheers Jim
Edit: I remember a news article perhaps a year ago about some guy losing his mind and shooting a UK cop with a pistol crossbow in the leg. I'm wondering if this is a delayed response to that incident. Canada saw a similar anti gun movement after a mass shooting in the Maritimes/far east coast.
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My respect for the stated no politics policy on this site refrains me from saying what I want to.
I will only say, again, that I feel devastated and a deep sadness at the loss of personal freedoms by the people of the UK. From the loss of freedom of speech to the loss of the expectation that migrants will become culturally assimilated to British culture, to the loss of your basic human freedom of personal defense, I just wonder how much further can this go? I stand by, deeply in angst and sympathy and hope that the people of Britain will endure this. How much more must be demolished by the cultural luddites before the Bitish alter the direction of their society? Britain in 2026 is the best argument for a proper written constitution that includes citizens rights that the government must not violate. I just wonder if this is what the Prince of Wales intends to do after he is coronated King ?
I will only say, again, that I feel devastated and a deep sadness at the loss of personal freedoms by the people of the UK. From the loss of freedom of speech to the loss of the expectation that migrants will become culturally assimilated to British culture, to the loss of your basic human freedom of personal defense, I just wonder how much further can this go? I stand by, deeply in angst and sympathy and hope that the people of Britain will endure this. How much more must be demolished by the cultural luddites before the Bitish alter the direction of their society? Britain in 2026 is the best argument for a proper written constitution that includes citizens rights that the government must not violate. I just wonder if this is what the Prince of Wales intends to do after he is coronated King ?
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@Zunga Jim I answered the question in post #4 BBC News have a series running On the Front Line with regards to the dangers of catapult use. With the price of petrol today, Molotov cocktails are also off the shopping list.
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David
Hi JAFO, maybe they could take some of those Lithium batteries out of their electric cars and throw them instead of molotovs?hello,
@Zunga Jim I answered the question in post #4 BBC News have a series running On the Front Line with regards to the dangers of catapult use. With the price of petrol today, Molotov cocktails are also off the shopping list.
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David
They are pretty incendiary after all...
They still won't go after the knife wielding criminals, they only go after the honest sheep.
hello,
@Kiwicousin are you joking, with the cost of living on this side of the pond, even a small AAA battery is worth its weight in gold.
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David
Sadly, very much same inflation rate here as well.hello,
@Kiwicousin are you joking, with the cost of living on this side of the pond, even a small AAA battery is worth its weight in gold.
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David
Diesel now $3.18 litre =$14.31 gallon.
95 octane petrol $3.54 litre =$15.93 gallon as per today, with many Petrol stations empty at weekend.
Government discussing rationing possibilities in future.
Winter is coming..
Enloop rechargeables AA and AAA are $11 each.
Don't even get me started on price of basic food..
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Get your slingshots while you can....
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I'm keeping mine for er... em... Home Defence, shooting down Zeppelins when they come across the North Sea from the Middle East, that is my excuse & I'm sticking to it!!
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David
There's been more than 2 incidences in the last 10yrs mate. In 2024 there was the triple murder of the women from the same family. Basically it's a murder or two every couple of years. Then there was the Sikh man who got into the grounds of Buckingham Palace wanting to kill the Queen, apparently put up to do it by a chatbot (which is rather weird) and he later pleaded guilty to treason.
Whatever, it's put paid to me getting an Excalibur this year. If crossbow licensing will be anything as strict as FAC then people with even a non violent mental health record will be turned away.
It's not just licensing though because they plan to ban the sale of crossbows, so that will end newcomers to the sport. They also plan to ban broadheads. It's not illegal for Brits to go abroad and bow hunt, so if they ban broadheads then you can't practise with them and balance your setup. Also recreational target shooters won't be able to do trick shots like cutting string.
I find it interesting that the UK regime's excuse is to save lives, yet so far this century we've taken part in wars that have killed maybe 2 million people, and the politicians want to decriminalise ending babies up until the point of birth.
Yeah about 600 years ago, a bow, not a crossbow, that's what the Europeans used.
Pretty soon they'll have you folks living forever.
But who if so, who will do the work?
You know, make things that we need rather than create consumer demand ..
Why do you think they're pushing AI and robotics? So we can make AI videos of a cat surfing while we're getting a robot to make us our dinner? Or so the top 0.5% can have everything provided for them without the need of the 99.5%?
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The crossbow thing did come a little out of left field however it has been talked about for a long time.
The broadhead being banned was a complete surprise.
The catapult ban was the one everyone seemed to be expecting as that has had a lot of press here.
The machete ban, which is the one that might make some sense, is still pending. We got zombie knives instead, which is a description without relevance.
The broadhead being banned was a complete surprise.
The catapult ban was the one everyone seemed to be expecting as that has had a lot of press here.
The machete ban, which is the one that might make some sense, is still pending. We got zombie knives instead, which is a description without relevance.
I have friends in the UK whom I have been close with since the early 1980s. Recently, they were in Florida. Over dinner they handed me a UK legal to carry knife as a present. I have been handing them assorted camping/bushcraft knives over the years and this was their way of showing what they can actually carry. I will try to get an image up of the knife they gave me.
These friends have seen my pull a Glock out of my pocket on numerous occasions and I have never been shy about sharing images of myself blasting assorted firearms over the years. I am fairly certain they consider this eccentric American behavior just as I look at them relying solely on their government to provide them with protective services as odd British behavior.
This is the real crux of this discussion, isn't it? Just because we speak the same language (!?) does not mean that we are the same culture. The United States was founded on the concepts of self reliance, independence, individuality and a written document of rights that mandates the government has limits on its power over citizens. Further, there has been, since the colonial period, an acceptance of a heterogeneous cultural origin of most Americans and the absence of ethnic identities as all culturally moved toward accepting "American culture". E pluribus unem has long been accepted as one of the main descriptive statements of American culture.
The British people have a different view of the role of government in their lives. Most Americans would be astonished at just how intrusive, by American standards, government is in the UK. There is no constitution, at least not a proper written one, there are no consequences the government must suffer for overstepping boundaries. No one chose the King, or Royal family or the aristocracy. There has not been a proper public conversation about if the British people want to continue to support a royal family since Charles II was beheaded. Significantly, the elephant in the room that no one wants to talk about is the changes that have occurred inside British culture in the past 75 years. Whereas, in the past, British culture was quite distinctly homogeneous, with regional variations, this is not the case now. Britain has allowed into its country large numbers of people who have an unwillingness to become culturally British. This trend has accelerated in the past 30 years and this is, in my opinion, the origin of the violent crimes that the government is trying, unsuccessfully to control. No, Britain is not the US and cannot be understood in the context of the Americans relationship with our government. We share many of the same internal problems but culturally our answers are different.
These friends have seen my pull a Glock out of my pocket on numerous occasions and I have never been shy about sharing images of myself blasting assorted firearms over the years. I am fairly certain they consider this eccentric American behavior just as I look at them relying solely on their government to provide them with protective services as odd British behavior.
This is the real crux of this discussion, isn't it? Just because we speak the same language (!?) does not mean that we are the same culture. The United States was founded on the concepts of self reliance, independence, individuality and a written document of rights that mandates the government has limits on its power over citizens. Further, there has been, since the colonial period, an acceptance of a heterogeneous cultural origin of most Americans and the absence of ethnic identities as all culturally moved toward accepting "American culture". E pluribus unem has long been accepted as one of the main descriptive statements of American culture.
The British people have a different view of the role of government in their lives. Most Americans would be astonished at just how intrusive, by American standards, government is in the UK. There is no constitution, at least not a proper written one, there are no consequences the government must suffer for overstepping boundaries. No one chose the King, or Royal family or the aristocracy. There has not been a proper public conversation about if the British people want to continue to support a royal family since Charles II was beheaded. Significantly, the elephant in the room that no one wants to talk about is the changes that have occurred inside British culture in the past 75 years. Whereas, in the past, British culture was quite distinctly homogeneous, with regional variations, this is not the case now. Britain has allowed into its country large numbers of people who have an unwillingness to become culturally British. This trend has accelerated in the past 30 years and this is, in my opinion, the origin of the violent crimes that the government is trying, unsuccessfully to control. No, Britain is not the US and cannot be understood in the context of the Americans relationship with our government. We share many of the same internal problems but culturally our answers are different.
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And there are people here in the US that would like to see us go through the same restriction process.
You are, of course, absolutely correct. My point being that we worked hard to make what we have in the United States. No one gave it to us. We stand in the giant footsteps of patriots who made these freedoms with determination, blood and hard, enduring back breaking work. Just because this was our way does not give us liscence to insist that other cultures also accept our way as their own. This is very much a British conversation that they must have within their own culture. The least we judge them the better. There is a literal Kulturkampf going on inside of Britain for the meaning of what the British nation and culture are. Americans are very used to this conversation inside our culture. The Europeans are not. What is happening inside British culture is, sadly, not unique to Britain. I see the exact same conversation going on when I am in Germany.
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The American Constitution is basically an answer to all of the issues they saw because of Britain.
Your right to bear arms is because of the issues in this thread, which have been going on for a long time.
Your right to bear arms is because of the issues in this thread, which have been going on for a long time.