And in the UK, there are Air Gun Nuts. [View all]

[Robb]

The Air Gun Lobby apparently is cribbing from the NRA.

SCOTLAND -- AIR guns should not be subject to strict licensing restrictions according to the vast majority of respondents to a government consultation.

A Scottish Government consultation on proposals for licensing air weapons returned 1,101 responses, with 87 per cent opposed to licensing.

The proposals were described as "misconceived", "disproportionate", "draconian" and "heavy-handed" by opponents, some of whom argued that an air gun is not a weapon.

However, nearly three-fifths of the responses came from England, and around a fifth came from cut-out coupons from shooting magazines, according to a government-funded analysis of responses published today....

Read More: http://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/scottish-news/scottish-government-consultation-air-gun-2066601

Scotland, for the record, essentially banned civilian handgun ownership within two years after a gunman shot 16 kids and their teacher in 1996. Crimes involving handguns, startlingly, plummeted.