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    #62
    gunny123
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    tac foley wrote: »
    Quote - 'He did not suppose that any person would dispute the first part of this motion that any British subject had a right to carry arms. To restrict that right would be to subvert the principals of public liberty.'

    Those were the days, eh?

    When we had the Bill of Rights, and it carried weight.

    tac

    When were those rights quashed, and by whom ?


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    #63
    tac foley
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    Well, the noon cannon on Spike Island has to be licensed to somebody, I'd guess. Do you suppose he keeps it locked up when not in use? ;=/

    tac


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    tac foley
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    gunny123 wrote: »
    When were those rights quashed, and by whom ?

    The Bill of Rights is still there, deeply 'subsumed' into a mass of obfuscating 'Acts' that have been steadily piled on top of it by successive governments here in UK, until it would take an army of legal minds to find it again.

    Every now and then, however, there is the faintest glimmer of gold among the dross of years, as can be seen in the recent decision by the Law Lords to 'allow' home-owners to use force to defend themselves and their family and even, gulp, property, against unlawful invasion - even to the point of causing or bringing about the death of the intruder.

    tac


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    gunny123
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    tac foley wrote: »
    Well, the noon cannon on Spike Island has to be licensed to somebody, I'd guess. Do you suppose he keeps it locked up when not in use? ;=/

    tac

    And the Armstrong guns overlooking Wicklow harbour.

    http://www.alamy.com/stock-photo-ireland-co-wicklow-wicklow-harbour-historic-anchors-and-cannon-overlooking-39179435.html


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    gunny123
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    tac foley wrote: »
    The Bill of Rights is still there, deeply 'subsumed' into a mass of obfuscating 'Acts' that have been steadily piled on top of it by successive governments here in UK, until it would take an army of legal minds to find it again.

    Every now and then, however, there is the faintest glimmer of gold among the dross of years, as can be seen in the recent decision by the Law Lords to 'allow' home-owners to use force to defend themselves and their family and even, gulp, property, against unlawful invasion - even to the point of causing or bringing about the death of the intruder.

    tac

    Maybe now the uk is not under the dead hand of the looney liberals of the european parliament, a lot of nonsense can be jettisoned.


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    tac foley
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    gunny123 wrote: »
    Maybe now the uk is not under the dead hand of the looney liberals of the european parliament, a lot of nonsense can be jettisoned.

    Not yet free of the loons, but soon.

    The overlying laws that hide the BoR were all made at the instigation of the British government, and have nothing to do with Europe.

    BTW, AFAIK, the Wicklow Harbour guns are not fired every 12 o/c midday, as the Spike Island cannon is, or was. So, no bangs, no powder needed, and no license either.

    Mind you, I might be totally wrong.

    It might be possible to arrange a mechanical contrivance that springs into action at the appropriate time, with the safe ejection of a soft rubber flag bearing the words 'BEWARE,LOUD BANG' in English and Irish 'Cúram a ghlacadh, torann ard!'

    Meanwhile, back in WW2 rifles........................

    tac


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