Spunt's helpful guide to Britain for fat Americans - Learn about Anglos so you can hate them better

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which is the most picturesque of these three cities from a tourist perspective: Lincoln, York, or Stamford?
 
soy_king said:
which is the most picturesque of these three cities from a tourist perspective: Lincoln, York, or Stamford?
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York. Lincoln has a nice cathedral but is otherwise quite a dull place. Stamford is pretty but quite small. York has plenty to see and do, good shops, museums, that sort of thing. It's also much easier to get to than Lincoln or Stamford which are a bit in the middle of nowhere.

EDIT: I will be doing another entry, I've just been really busy and these things take hours to write and research. Thanks to everyone who said they enjoyed the thread.
 
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Spunt said:
York. Lincoln has a nice cathedral but is otherwise quite a dull place. Stamford is pretty but quite small. York has plenty to see and do, good shops, museums, that sort of thing. It's also much easier to get to than Lincoln or Stamford which are a bit in the middle of nowhere.

EDIT: I will be doing another entry, I've just been really busy and these things take hours to write and research. Thanks to everyone who said they enjoyed the thread.
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fair, though from everything I've read, York seems like it's packed with tourists while Stamford is less so
 
Pig Boss said:
It's packed with tourists because it's the nicer place to go and has more interesting history. Stamford is literally who territory when it comes to English towns.
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Ely is a pretty nice place to visit if you like history and cathedrals. It's got enough interesting features to warrant more than a day's visit, but it doesn't attract the huge tourist crowds. It's also convenient for Cambridge and a few other places. I recommend Waterside Antiques for an unusual half hour. There's a rather good restaurant nearby that does a lovely eel pie and some riverside attractions well.

The only downside is that they think Cromwell was right.
 
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Seafarer said:
Can @Spunt give an overview on British gun laws and how cucked they are and why they are that way? I’m pretty sure that at one point Brits could own pistols.
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If you want a pistol on England you can get one. Not legally but you'd be surprised how many Italian police officers lose their handguns which end up for sale in an English pub.
 
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Seafarer said:
Can @Spunt give an overview on British gun laws and how cucked they are and why they are that way? I’m pretty sure that at one point Brits could own pistols.
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I'm not Spunt, so this won't be a long witty post, but I can give a quick rundown. As for how cucked British gun laws are the answer is very. In stereotypical British fashion everything that's allowed still requires a fucking license.

The most basic is the shotgun certificate. This covers single + double barrel break actions as well as semi-auto + pump actions that have a fixed magazine capacity of 2(+1 in the chamber). Unlike everything else you do not need a "good reason" to request one, and it's generally a shall issue, where the police have limited grounds to refuse. The SC lets you have as many qualifying guns as you want on it, but each has to be listed separately.

For anything that isn't covered by the SC you need to request a Firearms Certificate. This covers, any shotguns with detachable mags/fixed mags of more than 2 rounds, semi-auto + pump action rifles (limited to .22 rimfire). Bolt action/lever action/ trapdoor style breach loaders etc can be had in any calibre.
Handguns are technically banned (outside of Norn Iron who have their own rules on account of the whole Troubles thing), but it's primarily based on certain size criteria, so similar to shit like AR-pistols/pistol braces in America, there's a market for producing pistols that exceed the requirements, which makes them similar to any other FC legal weapons. Unfortunately the entire concept is retarded and they all end up basically looking like Jack Nicholson's joker:

Unlike the Shotgun Certificate, for any firearm that requires a FC you need to provide a "good reason", most commonly hunting/sport shooting/membership of a gun club etc. Outside of Northern Ireland, self defence alone no longer qualifies as a good reason. However if you have a firearm for another reason you can legally use it for self defense, subject to the same reasonableness standard of any other self defence use of force (inb4 someone tries to sperg about Tony Martin). Also unlike the shotgun certificate, the FC only covers the weapon you applied for it for. To add any other weapons you need to request a variation for each one, once again meeting the same stanards for why you want it etc.

As for why our laws are so shit, the answer is simple. Since we have no second amendment, nor large scale gun culture, the government was able to push through amendments/restrictions after high profile shootings. The 1987 Hungerford Massacre led to the Firearms (Amendment) Act 1988, which banned centre fire semi auto rifles, and introduce the 2+1 limitation for shotguns. The 1996 Dunblane Massacre led to a massive public petition that pushed for tighter gun control, which led to The Tories passing the Firearms (Amendment) Act 1997, which banned all pistols, except for .22s. WHen Tony Blair came to power later that year he passed a second act which also banned those.

Naturally faggots on both sides of the Atlantic like to point to this as proof that gun control works, while ignoring
a)the fact that we very few mass shootings before any of these laws
b)we've had just as many mass shootings since these laws were passed
c)Much like in America mass shootings actually only make up a tiny fraction of gun crimes, and the bans did nothing about all the non mass shootings that continued. In fact even after the 1997 acts gun crime continued to fucking rise, nearly doubling 1997's numbers at one point in the mid 2000s, and not going below 1997 levels til fucking 2010.

*EDIT* This is a fairly broad overview, there are some edge cases where certain otherwise banned weapons can be allowed for various work purposes, but those are incredibly rare, and also kinda boring, and it's way too late for me to give a shit about covering them. This is the most important bits as a whole.
 
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East_Clintwood said:
As for how cucked British gun laws are the answer is very.
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Don't guns have to kept unloaded with the ammo in a lockbox or some other equally hard to get place or am I talking out of my arse here?
 
Midwit said:
Don't guns have to kept unloaded with the ammo in a lockbox or some other equally hard to get place or am I talking out of my arse here?
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For shotgun ammo there's no specific rules for storage. Whether or not you can keep the gun loaded is interesting. I can't find anything in the legislation/case law that specifically forbids it, but equally it's one of those things where there's likely to be some questions by a FEO if/when they find out. I figure it would largely depend on
a)the specific circumstances eg. a farmer in the arse end of nowhere might keep a loaded shotgun for chasing off foxes and shit attacking his animals, which would likely be okay, whereas a trap shooter who lives on an estate and only goes shooting once a month might have a harder time justifying it.
b)whether or not you're dumb enough to admit you're keeping it loaded to pull a Tony Martin on some scrote

For Section 1 firearms (basically everything I listed previously that the average peon could get a Firearms Certificate for) ammo has to be stored securely. The specifics of how it's stored depend, the official Home Office guidance states:
Section 1 ammunition can be stored in a separate secure compartment within a gun cabinet or in its own secure container. When considering whether storage arrangements are secure enough, the police will look at the circumstances of each case and at the overall security arrangements, including the security of the premises where the firearms and ammunition are kept.
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In addition to storing the ammo separately, it's not uncommon for the FEO to require the bolts/and or magazine to be stored separately from the gun as well, storing them in the same place as the ammo is usually the common solution in that case.

edit: Should probably clarify for the curious FEO = Firearms Enquiry Officer, aka the local plod retard responsible for dealing with civvies and guns
 
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Bankman said:
nearly 70 million people
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That's assuming the official numbers are correct. There was a buried article back in the late 2000s wherein the author was told by several analysts that the population was closer to 80, and nowadays I wouldn't be surprised if we were pushing 90 thanks to incompetent bureaucrats and the government desperately trying to downplay the effects of immigration. It would also help explain why unemployment feels like it's so prevalent despite official figures saying that it's nothing out of the ordinary.
 
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Midwit said:
That's assuming the official numbers are correct. There was a buried article back in the late 2000s wherein the author was told by several analysts that the population was closer to 80, and nowadays I wouldn't be surprised if we were pushing 90 thanks to incompetent bureaucrats and the government desperatly trying to downplay the effects of immigration. It would also help explain why unemployment feels like it's so prevalent despite official figures saying that's nothing out of the ordinary.
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That's similar to America's "30-35 Million Illegals", which is the exact same figure I've been hearing since the early 90's.
 
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Any eta on the next post? This is one of the best and most informative threads on the site.
 
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