- Of course there are some few land-owners permitted to have shotguns or a rifle for deer culling and there are shooting clubs where you may be permitted to own a long "handgun" that meets the restricting rules - such as not firing a self-contained cartridge or one that has extensions both forward and back !
UK Handgun !
Meanwhile the honourable leaders of that green and fertile land look after its inmates - oops - that's citizens - by ensuring their safety in every way.
They "closed" the Windscale - (now 'SELLAFIELD') Nuclear Site in 1957 following a fire (read 'disaster') and changed its name from WINDSCALE - hoping that everyone would think that it was under control and had all been sorted.
'Sellafield' is on the edge of the Lake District tourist hotspot in Cumbria.
'Sellafield' is on the edge of the Lake District tourist hotspot in Cumbria.
The 'Closed' Windscale at SELLAFIELD Nuclear Site in Cumbria.
I well recall hearing how a 70s survey of coastal seaweeds by SCUBA divers revealed radio-active contamination through-out the UK coastline (led by David Bellamy) and this shocking revelation was greeted by a Govt. response of ' - so what -we knew all about that'.
Anyway - British inmates - oops sorry again, - residents- might care to note that this "closed" facility is inhabited by 10,000 workers (- yes that's TEN THOUSAND) and is currently costing tax payers 1.9 BILLION POUNDS per year to try to control and fix - and it will still be highly dangerous for more than another 100 years at best. (- what's the half-life of plutonium?)(Plutonium-244 half-life is 80 Million Years)
- While you folk are not allowed to shoot target pistols or own knives - there is a small matter (Shhhhh) of crumbling concrete storage ponds and silos containing hundreds of tonnes of highly radioactive materials from more than 60 years of operations building H-Bombs.
- Forget the plutonium - one small example would be 90,000 tonnes of radioactive graphite that has accumulated 'Wigner Energy' (- look it up) and no-one really knows how to make it safe for disposal. - Apparently it can heat-up and self ignite.
- Forget the plutonium - one small example would be 90,000 tonnes of radioactive graphite that has accumulated 'Wigner Energy' (- look it up) and no-one really knows how to make it safe for disposal. - Apparently it can heat-up and self ignite.
The Sellafield (& Drigg) site embraces Windscale and the remains of Calder Hall facilities among others - and is being used to dump ever more radioactive waste until they can 'process' it.
Drigg 'low level repository site' waiting to be flooded and eroded by the sea.
- Has stacked shipping containers stuffed with waste set in 'grout'.
The coastal Drigg nuclear waste dump is "almost certain to leak radioactive materials in the next 100 to 1,000 years" - But they've banned fox hunting eh.
Note 1: Calder Hall was opened by The Queen in 1956 (designed to last 20 years) - 'closed' in 1981 - and was 'decommissioned' in 2003. - Does that mean that it's not there anymore?
Note 2: Plutonium (the most toxic substance known to man) is named after Pluto who was the God of Hades(Hell).
Note 3: New Zealand is about as far away from UK as you can get without leaving the planet.
Note 2: Plutonium (the most toxic substance known to man) is named after Pluto who was the God of Hades(Hell).
Note 3: New Zealand is about as far away from UK as you can get without leaving the planet.
Part of this hundred ? year clean-up problem is that they don't actually know just WHAT there is dumped in those storage ponds and silos for them to deal with!
Ref: 'New Scientist' 24 Jan 2015. - And they don't trust you to have a gun or knife !!
- the "Representative Parliamentary Democracy" system is about as fit for purpose as the iconic 'baseball cap', - so well designed that it has to be worn backwards!
- the "Representative Parliamentary Democracy" system is about as fit for purpose as the iconic 'baseball cap', - so well designed that it has to be worn backwards!
- Anyone still think that 'banning' guns makes you safer?
Still, mustn't grumble eh.
Life is good,
Marty K.
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