Suse,

What about the Zimmerstutzen?

Designed for indoor target matches.

How do you feel about swords, spears, hunting boomerangs and nulla-nullas ?

Should Scotsmen in kilts be prohibited from wearing the dirk and the scian dhu?

To Is Misee.

It is still the law in York that any Scotsman found within the city limits carrying a bow or a sword may be killed.

We do need some review, especially of stupid laws that achieve nothing.
Now I may go to a licenced firearms dealer and he may hire a firearm to me if I have the appropriate licence.
If I tell him that I want it to see how that particular model performs, then that's OK but if I ask him to hire me a particular firearm because I'm interested in buying that particular firearm then it is unlawful for him to hire it to me.

Makes sense?

Anyone who has read Joseph Heller's 'Catch 22' would immediately recognise the awesome lunacy, the Catch 22, of ex-PM John Howard's 'gun control' that (just to give a few examples):

- lists the thousands of law-abiding licensed citizens - those police are most assured will not offend - on police computers as 'Persons of Interest', ominously red-flagging those character-checked, police-certified good citizens as likely dangerous offenders for police mobiles performing routine traffic checks and so on;

- empowers and requires police to conduct routine compulsory inspections and questioning of those ordinary, law-abiding, duly licensed citizens in their homes;

- diverts the manpower and resources of police weapons branches onto looking over the shoulders of those law-abiding, licensed citizens;

- require the same law-abiding, licensed citizens to personally attend local police stations to even get a copy of bureaucratic application forms (the police have to print forms individually after checking the licensed citizen on the police system); and

- devotes police resources to registering and recording legally bought and held firearms on the gun registry, which is universally referred to as a White Elephant (it does not record illegal guns because criminals do not register their tools).

At this stage it should be unnecessary to state the obvious but here goes with that Catch 22 anyway: none of the 'gun control' regulations, bureaucratic paper chase, random police inspections and so on affect criminals. No prizes for guessing why.