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General Category => Alternate Boards => Miscellaneous => Topic started by: Béal Feirste on February 15, 2017, 03:02:22 PM

Title: Firearms in Northern Ireland
Post by: Béal Feirste on February 15, 2017, 03:02:22 PM
My first new thread, I hope this is the proper location for this. Went through the forum a bit and thought this might be an interesting topic to post.

"AS the Department of Justice consults on proposed changes to firearms licensing laws here, The Detail can reveal information about the owners of Northern Ireland's 153,459 legally held guns.

Almost 60,000 members of the public own over 146,000 firearms with the remaining 7,018 legally held guns belonging to serving police and prison officers.

The Detail has been given rare access to information stored on the PSNI's Shogun firearms database in response to a Freedom of Information request we submitted earlier this year.

We have analysed detailed information provided on each of the 59,585 people living in Northern Ireland who currently hold firearms licences....
"

http://www.thedetail.tv/articles/who-owns-northern-ireland-s-153-000-legally-held-guns
Title: Re: Firearms in Northern Ireland
Post by: Solar on February 15, 2017, 03:16:47 PM
OK, so what's your point?
Title: Re: Firearms in Northern Ireland
Post by: taxed on February 15, 2017, 03:21:04 PM
Quote from: Solar on February 15, 2017, 03:16:47 PM
OK, so what's your point?

I was hoping you knew.....
Title: Re: Firearms in Northern Ireland
Post by: Solar on February 15, 2017, 04:00:08 PM
Quote from: taxed on February 15, 2017, 03:21:04 PM
I was hoping you knew.....
I don't know, maybe that they can't own a gun unless the govt permits it?
Title: Re: Firearms in Northern Ireland
Post by: Possum on February 15, 2017, 04:27:05 PM
Quote from: Solar on February 15, 2017, 04:00:08 PM
I don't know, maybe that they can't own a gun unless the govt permits it?
I think the point was that he started another thread. Anyway that's all I got out of it.
Title: Re: Firearms in Northern Ireland
Post by: taxed on February 15, 2017, 04:27:53 PM
Quote from: Solar on February 15, 2017, 04:00:08 PM
I don't know, maybe that they can't own a gun unless the govt permits it?

I hope he's not scared of guns too.  Marxists hate guns.
Title: Re: Firearms in Northern Ireland
Post by: walkstall on February 15, 2017, 04:41:19 PM
Quote from: Solar on February 15, 2017, 04:00:08 PM
I don't know, maybe that they can't own a gun unless the govt permits it?

I did move this post out of The Living Room and into 
Miscellaneous.
Title: Re: Firearms in Northern Ireland
Post by: Solar on February 15, 2017, 05:33:53 PM
Quote from: walkstall on February 15, 2017, 04:41:19 PM
I did move this post out of The Living Room and into 
Miscellaneous.
Thanks, I might have stuck it in survival, especially considering the tenuous grip they have on owning weapons in Ireland.
Title: Re: Firearms in Northern Ireland
Post by: quiller on February 16, 2017, 01:33:45 AM
Quote from: s3779m on February 15, 2017, 04:27:05 PM
I think the point was that he started another thread.

...And left out military weaponry.