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    #32
    Rafer
    Registered Users Posts: 59 ✭✭Rafer


    PS a hornet is also the same diameter .224 speed is 2200fps
    and all of the above come under the classification as centrefire 22s


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    #33
    Rovi
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,570 ✭✭✭Rovi


    Rafer wrote:
    PS a hornet is also the same diameter .224 speed is 2200fps
    and all of the above come under the classification as centrefire 22s
    They don't really though, as firearms have 'traditionally' been licenced according to their nominal calibre; thus, a .22 pellet gun, .22LR, .22WMR, .22 Hornet, and .220 Swift are treated as all the same thing (they've all got .220 on the licence, after all), while a .223 obviously has a bigger number and is therefore worthy of further investigation, and .22-250 has a '250' in it (:eek:) and should be treated with deep suspicion too.

    The old .22 pellet gun = .220 Swift 'information deficit' loophole has for years been a grand handy way of getting into a fullbore rifle without attracting any more attention than getting licenced for a pellet gun or .22LR.
    If only the ammunition wasn't so expensive! :rolleyes:

    The amendments to the legislation are talking about defining firearms according to their muzzle energy, so it looks like this little wheeze is on its way into the history books.


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    #34
    demonloop
    Registered Users Posts: 682 ✭✭✭demonloop


    All this chat of guys with guns in tight leather suits has made me go all funny!! :eek:


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