A Society Disarmed

[Sim G]

And you'll go to jail.....

[tackb]

What if everyone said no ? Put everyone in jail? They don't put every druggy in jail but they have said no and continue to use/sell drugs?

[Mr_Logic]

With 300,000 votes to call on, mostly shotgun shooters, won't win a vote.

in terms ofphysically refusing, 300,000 or so firearms (exc shotguns), mostly .22, won't hold up either, sadly.

[Blackstuff]

What if everyone said no ? Put everyone in jail? They don't put every druggy in jail but they have said no and continue to use/sell drugs?

I've thought about this too, along the lines of peaceful resistance. There are currently approx 105,000 available prisoner places in the UK. 97,000 of them are filled. Even if every current prisoner was freed we'd still fill the prisons 4 times over... What are ya gonna do??

[techguy]

If you can think of something which will actually work, I am all ears...

Encourage more people to take up shooting sports! Encourage more people to get involved in multiple areas of shooting sports, and encourage them to become more vocal about our firearms legislation (in a constructive way!) The more people we get involved, the bigger voice we have (if we can somehow have a united front!)

[paxtond]

If you can think of something which will actually work, I am all ears...

Encourage more people to take up shooting sports! Encourage more people to get involved in multiple areas of shooting sports, and encourage them to become more vocal about our firearms legislation (in a constructive way!) The more people we get involved, the bigger voice we have (if we can somehow have a united front!)

the problem being is so many shooters are very pesomistic about any type of repel.

do i honestly thing signing online petitions will help, properly not but il sign them anyways just incase, its often i see shooters saying " they are gone, they are never coming back" with that kind of attitude they never will

[PaulR]

As shooters we're still too fragmented.

The associations have learnt nothing from the last two major banning programs and governments will continue to pick off small interest groups. That's how they got away with the semi auto rifle ban, only a smallish number of shooting sportsmen were affected.

Other shooting interest groups like bolt action and single shot target shrugged their shoulders and said, doesn't affect me.

Shotgunners definitely were not interested.

Same thing happened with pistols, there were only 66,000 owners/users which in the scheme of things, is a small group. Like semi auto rifle owners, pistol users were also spread far and wide geographically and in many different political constituencies. A protest by Political vote would have achieved anything.

So, as has been suggested before, refusal to hand them in would just end up in with you in prison plus the loss of your firearms. You'd effectively disappear for 5 years mostly unnoticed and with no sympathy from a jaundiced media.

How did it feel?

I lost a mint 1943 Garand and a Mossberg 8 shot slugster after Hungerford

I lost 8 pistols/revolvers after Dunblane.

Both times I was incredibly sad for the victims.

I also felt what I imagine the anticipation of being raped must be like. You know it's coming but you feel totally helpless.

[SevenSixTwo]

If you can think of something which will actually work, I am all ears...

Encourage more people to take up shooting sports!... the more people we get involved, the bigger voice we have.

^ This.

Also, the more firearms enthisiasts there are, the more 'normal' it becomes in the public's view.

[SevenSixTwo]

Anyway, the original point of this thread was to get anecdotes on how people felt when they were disarmed.

[alextwogun]

Too new to shooting for this to have affected me at the time although it now does. Have always wandered was there any organised representation, appeal or protest at the time by the shooting fraternity? Who represented us at the time and what did they do?