{"id":11329,"date":"2015-12-11T15:08:24","date_gmt":"2015-12-11T15:08:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jomec.co.uk\/intercardiff\/?p=11329"},"modified":"2015-12-11T15:08:24","modified_gmt":"2015-12-11T15:08:24","slug":"should-cardiff-ban-bb-gun-or-not","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/global-city\/should-cardiff-ban-bb-gun-or-not","title":{"rendered":"Should Cardiff ban BB gun or not?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The shopkeeper representative in Cardiff still defends his\u00a0stand after 2 teenagers were convicted of using a BB gun. He believes the store could sell BB gun to children in a cautious way rather than ban it.<\/p>\n<p>Two school boys have used an imitation \u201cBB\u201d gun to threaten a fellow pupil in their school just in order to get a cigarette. As a result, they were detained in a Young Offenders Institution for eight months. Two MPs said there should be tougher regulations to stop minors from getting their hands on imitation weapons like BB guns. Moreover, a\u00a0majority of parents strongly appeals to ban the sale of BB gun toys as they think it could wreck a child\u2019s life. Although the current law is supposed to prevent sale of BB guns to under 18 years old, there have been a number of serious teenagers\u2019 incidents in the UK and globally \u2013 including deaths.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2015\/12\/51.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11430 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2015\/12\/51-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"5\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2015\/12\/51-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2015\/12\/51-500x281.jpg 500w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2015\/12\/51.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11430 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2015\/12\/51-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"5\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2015\/12\/51-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2015\/12\/51-500x281.jpg 500w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2015\/12\/51.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/noscript><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Andrew Jones, the shopkeeper of Antics, says: \u201cI know the law on the BB gun, it\u2019s legal to own BB gun under 18, but it\u2019s illegal to purchase the BB gun of them. I\u2019m very strict on it, if I don\u2019t think someone is 18 even you show your ID I would refuse to sell, you know, in the wrong hands everything will be dangerous.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Debate over the banning of BB gun after two minors were convicted. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":473,"featured_media":11344,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-11329","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-global-city"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Should Cardiff ban BB gun or not? - InterCardiff<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"noindex, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_GB\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Should Cardiff ban BB gun or not? 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