But not by much. You can take them a bit above the legal limit, but only by a modest margin.
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Sorry but this is simply not true, I can turn my compressed air rifle to 15 ftlbs by turning one screw, don't have to open internals. I shoot HFT competitively, to maintain accuracy I need to adjust to 11.9 ftlbs. External temperature and pressure can effect this so I need to be able to adjust so I don't go over 12 ftlbs.
I have seen some spring rifles that have had different springs giving 18 ftlbs, hardly minimal.
Gary
An FAC covers an air rifle up to and including 20ft/lb. Or it certainly used to.
Had a shot of a smaller bore air rifle once that was ?? .177 or summat like that with much stronger 22 spring in it.. by god this thing could do damage. was a mate of my brothers.. way back in 60's i think
Yes I have a Sig Sauer P226 air pistol that Sig makes to be as similar as possible to the real thing - if I got that out anywhere in public other than the range where my son and I use it, I would expect a whole lot of trouble.
Aren't the vast majority of airgun injuries accidentally inflicted? I very rarely hear of villains tooling up with them.
Not sure about the accidentally inflicted injuries but certainly the number of people intentionally injured / killed by them is tiny.
Going to do a bank job with a Webley Osprey wouldn't do your cred much good :lol:
This reminds me of Lock, Stock: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a8tpWoStiw8