Get ready for air guns to be banned

[warthog]

http://www.hindustantimes.com/India-new ... 16749.aspx

5-year-old girl shoots mother with air-gun

Its safe to say the police will require license to get airguns

[inplainsight]

The rubber pellet from the air gun, used to shoot birds, hit her mother, killing her on the spot, they said.

Used to shoot birds! Just shows their ignorance.

[brihacharan]

5-year-old girl shoots mother with air-gun
PTI
Tuticorin, February 24, 2013

First Published: 19:22 IST(24/2/2013)
Last Updated: 19:23 IST(24/2/2013)
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Playing with an air-gun proved disastrous for a five-year-old girl when she shot and killed her mother near this Tuticorin on Sunday, police said.
The rubber pellet from the air gun, used to shoot birds, hit her mother, killing her on the spot, they said. A friend of the
Girl's father has been arrested for giving the gun to the girl, police said.

> Good Heavens - This is all we need at a time when RKBA is being promoted with all sincerity & earnestness
> Haven't come across a 'Rubber Pellet' for air guns - if my memory serves me right - Could it be a Stun Gun used by cops(uses rubber pellets) that was used in this case?
> If so is such a gun allowed for civilian use? How did the Girl's father have access to it?
> Since this happened in the south - Cld any of our fellow IFGians based in south throw some light on this episode - since it would be covered by media in the south?
Briha

TC: Since you are with Hindustan Times - Cld you check with your colleagues down south & find out the exact story.

[renjith747]

brihaji stun gun is an electro shock weapon to control a person before commiting any violent crime.It doesn't have any pellets.Stun gun is available in Indian market for personal protection but a taser gun which is another type of stun gun is not permitted for normal civilians.

Regards
Renjith

[essdee1972]

With all due respect to the dead lady, and the little kid, if this was an airgun (I am ignoring the "rubber pellet" part now), it must have been loaded, cocked, etc. No 5 year old can cock a springer (unless this one a little Supergirl in disguise). Most 5 year olds have problems lifting one! Most will also have issues in pulling the trigger of an IHP, SDB, or similar Indian AG. Unless the gun has a hair trigger. But then, hair triggers are usually 2-stage (AFAIK), how many 5 year olds can go through the first stage?

It might, on the other hand, be a PCP. Yes, a shot with the PCP can kill. Say it goes through the eye into the brain. But...... even a PCP is a mite too heavy for a 5 year old to pick up!!

Likely scenario? Looks like a loaded & cocked gun left out carelessly by a dumbo. This kid somehow gets her finger on the trigger, and her mom is unlucky enough to be in the line of fire! Sad, really. But an accident, however unfortunate! Sadder still is the fact that this might lead to further curbs on the proper users of airguns.

On the other hand, the whole story, if you include rubber pellets, looks either like journalistic ignorance, or as they say - a put up job.

And Brihaji, Renjith is right, the stun guns don't deliver rubber pellets. The rubber pellets used by cops for riot control are fired from something which looks like a shotgun (based on what I remember from the curfew days in 1991) with a huge rotary "magazine" (or is it a clip?). Something like the 40 mm gun on this page: http://people.howstuffworks.com/riot-control2.htm . Those pellets should not be lethal, unless fired at really close range and hits somewhere critical.