From: Jonathan Spencer, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>Very few people have ever been killed with 12
>foot-pound (and under) airguns and I don't think its
>therefore reasonable in the legal sense to say that
>they ARE lethal.
"in the legal sense", you mean "in law". Most are.
>If something doesn't go bang it's not a firearm, by
>definition
What about a harpoon with a tube to guide the spear. By case law, it
was a lethal **barrelled** weapon, and a firearm.
>The scale
>of the threat simply does not indicate a need for licensing,
>any more than it would indicate a need for licensing hammers,
>for example.
Oooh, no, there's lots of people been killed with hammers, but not
nearly as many as with fists, feet, broken bottles, kitchen knifes ...
--Jonathan Spencer, firearms examiner
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Judge Sturgess, 22 July 1928
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