Beware the Ides of T110.
Дата: 14.03.2016 23:23:51
Vollketten, on Mar 14 2016 - 19:13, said: Checking gun policy.org There are 13,935
licensed handguns in NI (18,250 rifles and 80,258 shotguns) as of
8/2/2009 (1) for a population of 1.7 million. That's a total of
112,443 firearms or 6.6 firearms for every 100 people. Nearly
identical therefore to the UK wide average of 6.7 per the
Small Arms Survey
2007 This doesn't tally with the Stationary Office
figures from 2002 which records 4.7% of the NI population holding
firearms certificates (it's under 2% in England and Scotland).
From the consulatation paper on the Control of Firearms Northern
Ireland Order 2002 we have: " 20. Following the
Dunblane shootings in 1996, handguns were in effect banned in
England, Wales and Scotland. In 1998 the then Secretary of State
for Northern Ireland announced that handguns would not be similarly
banned in Northern Ireland, primarily because the vast majority of
handguns held in Northern Ireland are held for self-defence.
(8) Between 11,000 and 12,000 handguns are held by individuals
in Northern Ireland for personal protection. (9) 21. The
consultation paper makes clear that personal protection weapons
have been granted: "only ... to those individuals whom [the
Chief Constable] believes to be under serious threat of terrorist
attack. They are not granted for the protection of money or
property. [They] ... are thus a direct result of the long history
of terrorist murders in Northern Ireland." I have no
direct expereince with applyoing for a firearms certificate in
Northern Ireland but this guy does: I appreciate he doesn't talk
about self-defence but I;d be curious to see how/why or evidence of
how liberally you say these permissions are given out. I had always
thought they were mainly to permit police officers to take a
firearm home for protection from terrorists who liked to break in
and murder them. 1) ‘Long Guns and Handguns
Registered in Northern Ireland.’ Response to a Freedom of
Information Request, pp. 1-3. Belfast: Police Service of Northern
Ireland. 2) ‘Completing the Count: Civilian firearms - Annexe
online.’ Small Arms Survey 2007: Guns and the City; Chapter 2
(Annexe 4), p. 67 refers. Cambridge: Cambridge University PressThe_Chieftain: Figures from PSNI are found here. https://docs.google....UOA8/edit#gid=0
That's 153,459 firearms in total (of which 7,018 are
service weapons of police and prison service members), amongst
59,585 persons. Of which one is held for shark hunting.
http://www.thedetail...gally-held-guns
for more translation. Unfortunately, they forgot to attach the
condition code listing to see who gets to own what sort of weapon
for what purpose.
Beware the Ides of T110.