Our Morning Coffee and Weather

[Mistered]

+ 5 this morning but warming to the low 50s later.

[Shakey Jake]

About 45 and rainy again this morning. Seems we either are very wet or very dry lately. On second cup while working on a flute overhaul.

[daytime dave]

28 f going to 45 f today. Coffee in the NRA mug.

Hoping lots of snow will go.

[Shakey Jake]

Woke up to 60 this morning with a very dense sea fog that rolled in from the coast. On second cup of coffee getting ready to work.

[RanchRoper]

28f with another big snowfall warning today. Then another storm tracking in for weekend. Tea in a go cup.

[daytime dave]

44 f going to 55 f. Back to reality tomorrow.

Coffee in the Henry mug.

Enjoy your day.

[BrokenolMarine]

Fifty three degrees at seven forty five am. Mother Nature is like a teeter totter. it was raining early this morning, but that has passed us by. It is supposed to remain clear all day. Coffees brewing and the stoneware mugs are standing by.

[BrokenolMarine]

It's 34 degrees this morning... ... where it was seventy five degrees yesterday. There were some unintended consequences of the see saw weather. It was so hot in the house yesterday, Miss T turned off the heat and opened a few windows to cool things off. My daughter was up from the city with my Granddaughter, a rare visit, since she and my son-in-law both work. She had taken a week off to burn leave she would lose if she didn't use it... and we had a great visit with the little one. This was the Granddaughter I made the Toy Box for at Christmas.

Miss T hasn't been feeling well. She closed the windows when it got dark, and went to bed early last night, around 9ish. I was reading a James Webb Novel and really into it, looked up and it was nearly 1:30 am. I turned in. Neither of us turned the heat back ON... woke up to 60 degrees in the house. That's crisp morning air. Yup. High today? mid 40s. and rain.....

Coffee brewing.... Stoneware mugs standing by.

[Yornoc3]

Pretty nice, 20 above this morning here. The weather's been boring lately - plain average. Rumor of a couple of snow events Sunday and Monday, I didn't need that much excitement, though .

[Mistered]

35 and cloudy this morning and looking like rain! And 29 and snow predicted for tomorrow - somewhere in between this I want to get out and try the new WGRS sight!

[JCN]

Low 60s and sun/wind here in the Vegas valley. Surprisingly chilly!

[RanchRoper]

Winter storms one after another lately. We have snow piled everywhere now. Fences buried. 6 foot corral panels that horses will be stepping over if we get much more snow. This storm is supposed to quit Sunday afternoon. Woodstove is on and tea brewing.

[Les]

It's 34° and sunny - time to go airgunning!

[BrokenolMarine]

35 degrees, and thick fog out. Not surprising with all this rain the last two weeks. We are supposed to see high fifties. Coffee should be up by the time Miss T finishes in the coops.

[Catherine]

It's 34° and sunny - time to go airgunning!

I hope that you have a good time!

Les, did they change some more gun laws in the UK within the last 6 months to 1 year?

Firearm style or load capacity for a rifle or shotgun?

Limit on how much ammunition that you can have on hand (Properly stored of course.) or with any reloading supplies?

Purchase limits on how much that you can buy at one time?

Types of ammunition allowed?

Any more changes in your knife laws?

Thanks and take care.

Cate

[Mistered]

29 and about 3" of snow this morning!

[Les]

It's 34° and sunny - time to go airgunning!

I hope that you have a good time!

Les, did they change some more gun laws in the UK within the last 6 months to 1 year?
They keep fiddling around with the rules and laws, but I don't know of anything recently to cause any more tears. They are talking about introducing a licensing system for air rifles, but at this stage it's just conjecture. Scotland has already introduced a licensing system for air rifles.

Certain groups would like to see firearms outlawed completely, and unfortunately we don't have a 2nd amendment to fall back on.

Firearm style or load capacity for a rifle or shotgun?
We are not allowed any full-auto weapons at all, or semi-auto over .22 rimfire. We have a firearms certificate (FAC) and a shotgun certificate (SGC). There are several sub-sections to the firearms cert, but the shotguncert is a bit more straight forward. We can have a shotgun with a maximum capacity of 3 rounds (1 in the breech and two in a magazine) on a normal SGC (shotgun cert). Shotguns with a higher magazine capacity are available on a section 1 (firearms) certificate.

There are sections of our firearms laws that allow the use of full-auto firearms, but they are only allowed in extreme circumstances .... and I have no clear idea about what those circumstances might be.

The European Union are trying to limit magazine capacities to less than 10 rounds. If they had their way, all guns would be banned, but there is not much chance of that - I hope.

We can no longer buy 'normal' handguns - apart from black powder pistols. We can buy "long barreled revolvers or pistols". They must have a barrel at least 12" long, and the overall length must not be less than 24", so they will have an extention arm on the grip to make up the length to 24". If you Google long barreled revolvers, you'll see what I mean.

We cannot buy semi-automatic pistols over .22RF. We can buy revolvers up to .50 cal, as long as we can justify a 'need' and as long as they are at least 24" long.

Northern Ireland and the Isle of Man - both part of the UK - can buy normal pistols of any caliber on their FAC ..... a fact which leaves the rest of us spitting feathers.

Limit on how much ammunition that you can have on hand (Properly stored of course.) or with any reloading supplies?
The ammunition limit is set on a case by case basis. Somebody who shoots .22 rimfire at the top level might have a limit of 5000 - 10k rounds, but 1k to 2k is usually the norm. Centrefire limits are usually a lot lower - perhaps with a max of 500.
I don't know how the reloaders get on. I know that they can hold plenty of cases, and plenty of bullets, but I don't know what their completed round limit is. I'm guessing that it's similar to normal ammunition limits. I don't get involved in the dark arts.

The shotgun shell limit is probably around 10k.

Purchase limits on how much that you can buy at one time?
As above.

Types of ammunition allowed?
We can actually buy quite a selection of firearms, from .22RF to .50 BMG. There is a large black powder lobby too, with various calibers. We need to "show a need" for any firearm that we purchase. This would normally be target shooting, although .223/243/308 etc is frequently used for hunting. For target shooting, we need to be a member of a registered club. One of the clubs I attend has frequent shooting days on Ministry of Defence (Army etc) firing ranges, so that greatly increases the caliber of rifle available to us.

The hunting fraternity must either have land of their own, or be allowed to shoot on other peoples land. The land must be passed by the police for the caliber used i.e., you can't use a .50 BMG on land that is only passed for .243 etc.

Strangely enough, all of our firearm and shotgun laws don't seem to stop the criminals from obtaing any sort of firearm that they want .... something that tends to make the honest shooters hot under the collar, because we get penalised by increased legislation for any wrong-doing.

Any more changes in your knife laws?
It is illegal to sell a knife to anyone under 18, unless it has a folding blade 3 inches long (7.62 cm) or less. It is also illegal to carry, buy or sell any type of banned knife, use any knife in a threatening way (even a legal knife) etc. It doesn't stop the delinquents from carrying knives, though. They just use one of their Mum's kitchen knives.

Certain areas of the country have a lot of cases of knife crime, but up until the present time I don't know of any planned changes to the current laws.

Thanks and take care.

Cate

[Mistered]

I don't get involved in the dark arts.

Is reloading considered a 'Dark' art in the UK?

[JCN]

I'm so glad Cate asked and you answered! I never heard of long barreled revolvers but just spent the last 15 minutes watching YouTube videos of "UK legal LBRs". These things are crazy! One guy had a 44 mag Taurus revolver with a 22" barrel, it was comical.

i know we can't talk politics in here. I'd love to know how a 22" barrel law came about. I'm looking forward to researching this further.

[Les]

I don't get involved in the dark arts.

Is reloading considered a 'Dark' art in the UK?

No .... only by me.

Most centrefire shooters here reload their own ammo, but I just never got around to doing it.