law on Harpoon Guns

roflLove the mini cooper idea!

alexrom1207 said:

Several comments:
First, I am American. So the idea of being prohibited from having firearms is something that is quite foreign to me. Here you can have any damn thing you want. ...Hey if there's one thing Americans do well, it's overdoing things...I was under the impression that all firearms (explosive charge or compressed air) were banned in England. Does the rest of the U.K. not have this same restriction? I had always assumed they did.
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Also. Without a bored barrel (are they bored?) and with a projectile that naturally has a lot of drag, what is the effective range of one of these guns?
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Lastly, and this is just my idea, what about a minimum size requirement (kind of thinking backwards) but in this case a larger gun is much less dangerous than a small one because its uses are seriously limited. ...

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roflGreat post. Aren't fire arms mandatory yet?!

Airguns are allowed in England and the rest of the UK (not sure about Iceland) but they imposed power restrictions some time ago. It doesn't help when you get prats like the guy who shot and killed a baby in a pram/pushcair in a public park in Scotland a year or two ago. Mind you the teenager who used a live dog for archery practice in WA, USA is hard to forget too.

Bored? Rifled? It makes me wince to think of that harpoon pictured in podges email spinning out towards some poor whale. Do they use explosives in the tips (power heads)?

I love that you'd consider a minimum size requirementrofl - spoken like a true American. It does make some sense. BTW Don't forget, harpoon & spear are the same thing to most people, so be careful what you suggest to non-spearos, they might get hold of the wrong end of the stick.