Airgun teacher

[Hog]

The move comes only hours after special needs teacher Linda Walker, 48, failed in her bid to be freed on bail pending appeal.

Walker, who is imprisoned at Styal jail, in Cheshire, fired at the pavement during a stand-off with a group she described as a gang of "yobs" outside her home last August.

So, she been charged?! For a firearms offence? But an airgun is not a firearm unless its over 12ft lbs. So whats up?

[Farmerjoline]

The move comes only hours after special needs teacher Linda Walker' date=' 48, failed in her bid to be freed on bail pending appeal.

Walker, who is imprisoned at Styal jail, in Cheshire, fired at the pavement during a stand-off with a group she described as a gang of "yobs" outside her home last August.

So, she been charged?! For a firearms offence? But an airgun is not a firearm unless its over 12ft lbs. So whats up?[/quote']

She was jailed because she threatened them with it, the rifle could have been over 12ft lbs, as far as i know no articles mentioned it.

[Frosty Jack]

This is the gun she had, Walther CP88 -

http://www.straightshooters.com/walther/walther4blue.html

It is technically a firearm, but a legal one. But the offence relates not to the weapon itself, but how she used it.

"It is against the law for anyone to have an airgun in a public place unless they have some proper reason for doing so - for example, it has just been confiscated from an offender. A public place is anywhere where the public are allowed to go, regardless of who owns the land, and even though they may have to pay. Roads, streets, footpaths, canal towpaths, public parks, play areas are all examples of public places. If the general public have some sort of right or permission to be in a particular place, that is a public place and you are not allowed to have an airgun in that place.

It is an offence to fire an airgun within 50 feet of the centre of a public highway, if by doing so you cause any member of the public using that highway to be injured, interrupted or endangered. This applies even if you are on private property adjacent the highway. Public highways include roads, bridleways and public footpaths."

Therefore she commited a firearms offence.

[Farmerjoline]

This is the gun she had' date=' Walther CP88 -

[url']http://www.straightshooters.com/walther/walther4blue.html

It is technically a firearm, but a legal one. But the offence relates not to the weapon itself, but how she used it.

"It is against the law for anyone to have an airgun in a public place unless they have some proper reason for doing so - for example, it has just been confiscated from an offender. A public place is anywhere where the public are allowed to go, regardless of who owns the land, and even though they may have to pay. Roads, streets, footpaths, canal towpaths, public parks, play areas are all examples of public places. If the general public have some sort of right or permission to be in a particular place, that is a public place and you are not allowed to have an airgun in that place.

It is an offence to fire an airgun within 50 feet of the centre of a public highway, if by doing so you cause any member of the public using that highway to be injured, interrupted or endangered. This applies even if you are on private property adjacent the highway. Public highways include roads, bridleways and public footpaths."

Therefore she commited a firearms offence.

Sentences for CO2 powered ones are almost always harsher

[Guest davetherave]

I remember having an air rifle when I was about 15, then I bought a crossbow and nobody wanted to play any more

If this case had happened in the good ol US of A she probably would have been given honorary membership of the NRA and a lifetimes subscription to guns and ammo!

Dave

always expect the unexpected

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