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Jezston

Über Member
Location
London
The police should already know this. Just as when you buy a TV, the licensing authority are informed, when you buy an airgun, the police are informed.

Not if the kid got it off his dodgy mate or whatnot.

I didn't realise you needed to register such a thing. Does this only apply to metal pellet firing gas guns? Just I err own a few electric air guns (used for playing Airsoft) that fire plastic pellets and didn't need to register them.
 

Bman

Guru
Location
Herts.
Its the retailer who has to worry about all that. You dont have to register it as such. I just remember when buying my rifle (less than 13 foot per pound so no license required) I legally had to provide my address to the shop, so they could provide it to the police.
 

benb

Evidence based cyclist
Location
Epsom
You were lucky. Imagine the trauma if they had chipped the paint on your bike!

Do keep us informed, hopefully they'll have a good idea about who did it.
I wonder if they can do a ballistics match on the pellet, CSI style?
 
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MrHappyCyclist

MrHappyCyclist

Riding the Devil's HIghway
Location
Bolton, England
You were lucky. Imagine the trauma if they had chipped the paint on your bike!
You obviously haven't seen my bike. It's 20 years old and still has all original parts. :wacko:
(I have a new one on order. :smile:)

Do keep us informed, hopefully they'll have a good idea about who did it.
I wonder if they can do a ballistics match on the pellet, CSI style?
I wondered about that. The officer I spoke to this morning did ask whether the pellet is still embedded in my helmet.
 

Brahan

Über Member
Location
West Sussex
Close shave - lucky you had your helmet on huh? Surely that MUST draw a line under the 'Helmet Debate' :whistle:

PS. got to admit (although I don't know how far the assailant was) that it was a pretty good shot.

Glad you're ok.
 
Close shave - lucky you had your helmet on huh? Surely that MUST draw a line under the 'Helmet Debate' :whistle:

PS. got to admit (although I don't know how far the assailant was) that it was a pretty good shot.

Glad you're ok.

Certainly another pellet nail in the coffin for vented helmets?



But back on topic, these incidents need to be dealt with seriously as they can and have been fatal!

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davefb

Guru
even if the pellet hadn't actually caused any damage, that is NOT a road to be suddenly moving about because you felt something sting you...

was using that route too, not nice at all....


still, good shot... :-/
 
My Dad has got a bit of a scar on his neck from a pellet shot at him when he was a kid; quite a few folk have lost eyes too and there was that poor wee toddler killed in Glasgow a while back; I'm not surprised that the Police are taking it seriously. I hope they catch them.
 

tongskie01

Active Member
even if the pellet hadn't actually caused any damage, that is NOT a road to be suddenly moving about because you felt something sting you...

was using that route too, not nice at all....


still, good shot... :-/

im sure the shooter isnt that far. in my experience 30 to 50 yards is effective range for an air rifle.
 
The police are not informed of the buyers of air guns, but the shop has to take your details and keep a record. I have bought two this year, one shop required proof of ID the other didn't.

The law does not apply to sales between private individuals.
 

Brains

Legendary Member
Location
Greenwich
Remember this one - Trevor Hone's wife Jill - still in a coma


"The owner of a record label is in a critical condition after being shot accidentally with an air rifle by her son.



Jill Sinclair, the businesswoman and film producer who set up ZTT Records with her husband, Trevor Horn, 23 years ago, was shot in the neck by her son Aaron who was playing with an air rifle in the garden of their home near Henley, Oxfordshire.

The pellet, which was fired by the 22-year-old during a target practice session, hit an artery.

Ms Sinclair, who was rushed to hospital in Reading on Sunday, remains unconscious in the intensive care unit. A spokesman for the company said the 54-year-old was in a critical condition, but was stable.

"It was a complete accident," he said. "It was a real freak occurrence that her son was shooting at some targets in the garden and wasn't aware that she was close by.

"Purely accidentally she took a pellet in the neck. She is stable but critical. She is under deep sedation and in an induced coma."

He said it was too early to tell whether Ms Sinclair would suffer brain damage from the injury.

Ms Sinclair formed ZTT Records in 1983, the label that signed Frankie Goes To Hollywood and The Art of Noise. In the 1990s, ZTT became a successful dance label featuring artists such as Seal and Adamski.The former maths teacher married Mr Horn 26 years ago. He went on to record hit single "Video Killed The Radio Star" with the Buggles.

The couple, who also have a home in St John's Wood, London, have four children, - their son and three daughters, the youngest of whom is 11. It is understood that Aaron was at home from university for the weekend when the accident happened. "
 
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