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Originally Posted by DeeBee
I cannot beleive the content of this thread... the sight of these guns...
Coming from a country (UK) where almost no one owns guns, this thread is just amazing. All you can own here is a 'shot gun' with a barrel at least 24" long with no autoloading capability and the owner has to have a seperate license approved by the police for each individual weapon. You have to show a good reason to own one too - home/personal defense is not a reason. The police also visit to audit the storage security.
This might seem very restrictive, but we had only 50 people killed by guns in 2005/06 and the police don't carry guns (though there are special armed units available.)
DB
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As a white male I have about the same chance of getting murdered as any of my counterparts in most of Europe. So while this is odd and scary to you, its not really any more dangerous for the vast majority of us here.