Re: Scottish Cowboys
Posted: Mon Oct 24, 2016 6:33 am
And they will get either NI type powers or full authority to legislate on firearms ! Scotland will the first country in the EU and possibly in the free world to ban all guns from cillivian ownership !Fedaykin wrote:The problem is whilst Firearms legislation is not devolved and they should be following Home Office guidance to the letter of the law Police Scotland's political masters whom they owe their very existence and pay the bills are in Edinburgh not Westminster.
It is clear to me with SNP support and after the utter farce that is the Air Weapon Licensing scheme forced through into Scottish law Police Scotland are becoming increasingly confident in making up their own rules and hiding behind obfuscation and the excuse of "Public Safety" knowing full well it pleases their political masters in Holyrood.
Add to that a degree of petty class war anti shooting spite from the SNP, they were told repeatedly in the consultation over Air Gun licensing by the shooting public and organisations that the term "Weapon" is inaccurate and inflammatory yet they gleefully used that term rather the more neutral and conciliatory "Gun". That Police Scotland will now send out a letter to a Shooting organisation with a blanket statement that all guns are designed to kill is a good sign that they are not that interested in being conciliatory.
Sadly I think it is only a matter of time now before Firearms licensing is fully devolved to Holyrood as a sop to the Nationalists by the current UK government prior to the next inevitable referendum. What does it matter to the Tories in Westminster if Scottish shooters are left to face the whims of the SNP....
