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In the UK, which has some of the strictest laws, it's more like show you have a legitimate reason. Hunting is a common one, but self defense is not a legitimate
by ascorbic 7y ago
In the UK, which has some of the strictest laws, it's more like show you have a legitimate reason. Hunting is a common one, but self defense is not a legitimate reason. Apparently, working in maritime security in a piracy area lets you buy almost anything, even handguns and automatic weapons that are otherwise banned.
- chrisseaton 7y ago> In the UK, which has some of the strictest laws, it's more like show you have a legitimate reason. This is not true for guns. The UK police are required, by law, to issue a gun certificate unless they have a specific reason not to. Rifles are different.
- vonmoltke 7y agoI really don't want to wade into this debate, but I'm really confused by how you are using "gun" and "rifle" here. "Rifle" us a strict subset of "gun" in my vocabulary.
- chrisseaton 7y agoA gun is a shotgun, a canon, something that fires shot or a shell, that kind of thing. A rifle has rifling and fires a bullet. It's technical, but we're talking about laws so the technicalities matter. In the UK a licence for a gun, such as a shotgun, is 'shall-issue' to use terminology the US is familiar with. They need a reason to deny - you don't need a reason to be approved.
- microcolonel 7y agoFor future reference, in the U.S. and Canada (and possibly elsewhere), gun also refers to rifles and handguns, not just smoothbore guns.