Non-firearm CQB weapon for the UK

[madmike]

Yup. Reminds me of the joke about hunting apes.

"Shoot the dog! Shoot the dog!"



Also look up the US experiments with bats as aerial mines and the General's jeep.

 

[madmike]

Oh, and thanks. Working on a new SF novel now.

Title is, "Better To Beg Forgiveness..."

I'm sure all the vets can see where this one's going.

 

[Preacherman]

Actually, you're all of you wrong. The best weapon for home defence in the UK is one that's been around for millenia. The Scots developed it. It's called . . . haggis.

First, catch your haggis. Then, place it in an airtight plastic container with an easily-peeled-back lid. Allow to ferment in its own juices until you can see the maggots swimming around. Then, place in a convenient location, and wait for the intruder to break in.

At the first sign of trouble, peel back the lid (while holding your breath, of course) and throw the fermenting haggis all over the intruder. Then, still holding your breath, evacuate the premises while listening to the screams of the intruder being devoured by the maggots. Call the police and report an incident of biological terrorism. Sit back and wait while they demolish your home as a toxic waste dump. Let them pay to build you a new one. Blame Al Qaeda for everything.

Simple, innit?

 

[madmike]

Haggis is delicious.

The mistake most Americans make is getting the longer, stringier downhill legs.

See, the haggis only walks one way around the highlands, so one side (usually the right) develops longer legs and takes longer strides. The shorter legs work less and are far more tender.

Generally, those aren't exported. You have to get them IN Scotland.

 

[ndh87]

Im not familiar with UK laws, but maybe a nice compound bow? or if you want to try and make something i saw someone shoot a pencil through a piece of wood maybe 1/4in thick by putting it in the hose of a fire extinguisher then discharging the extinguisher.

 

[Zero_DgZ]

I think just hosing the perp down with a large commerical fire extinguisher would probably knock him off kilter enough for you to whang him with the empty cylinder. If you've never fired one of those things, they're loud. And the stuff comes out of 'em pretty hard, too.

 

[madmike]

If you have dry chem, it will create a choking cloud--I was present when a system discharged during installation. No one could see anything, or breathe.

If you have CO2, it will create a huge roar, a cloud that dissipates and affects breathing, and is unlikely to affect the user.

Both have potential.

 

[NYenthusiast]

I was under the impression air rifles were legal for use in the UK? Why not use a compact pellet rifle, its not a manstopper but I suppose if you need a last ditch defense its alright. Besides that in a situation where your life is being threatened load a paintball marker with marbles or gobstoppers up the velocity and take headshots. I know it sounds like a gorss attempt at humor but it would probably be effective.

 

[turretG]

A pocket full of ground dried habanaro pepper to give to your attacker towards the face in case he has a bowl chili near there to spice up. Every spice shop
should have some. Certainly spice up his or her day and you might make a new friend, quite civiliized that thought, eh what old bean?

 

[madmike]

I'm still trying to track the .68 cal glass beads for paintball guns I used to be able to get.

 

[Oldnamvet]

More vicious than a large knife. Once saw it used in RVN many years ago. Get an old Army surplus entrenching tool (small shovel) and sharpen all the edges and sides. Honed up like a razor it will take out your knifewielding BG in short order. Great for thrusting and slicing.

 

[Boom-stick]

If the topic is going in this direction, then I'll vote for anything by TOM ANDERSON, critical mass etc....

 

[Lo.Com.Denom]

Why not use a compact pellet rifle, its not a manstopper but I suppose if you need a last ditch defense its alright.

Yeah, air rifles under 12ft/lbs are legal and unlicensed at the moment (the government seems to want this changed, however. Yes, people have been badly injured and sometimes killed with those 12ft/lbs, but then people have also been badly injured and killed putting their trousers on. No, don't get me started...). However, anything over this limit requires a firearms certificate (FAC) and a good reason for ownership. Not much KE to play with, at 12ft/lbs. Eight or more shots from a magazine-fed, pre-charged pneumatic (PCP) might make 'em think twice, I suppose, but springers would probably just elicit a cry of: "Ouch! You b*stard!".

On a side note, air-pistols are restricted to a measly 6ft/lbs. If your air-pistol accidentally shoots just 6.0001ft/lbs, it's as illegal as a machinegun.

Go, as you say, figure...

 

[madmike]

Here in Indy I can carry an open bolt, full auto, suppressed Uzi under a trenchcoat and I'm kosher, but if I carry a switchblade it's a Class C misdemeanor, and a shuriken would be a Class A misdemeanor...

 

[Matt_W]

Hi Madmike, you could try these people http://www.theppb.co.uk/index1.htm

Let us know if you do source any because I might have to buy myself a paintball gun if you do