>>>>>>>>>>>>In Turkey you have to prove you're under a thread for have a gun.
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>>>>>>>>>>>I'm not sure what that statement means.
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>>>>>>>>>>I think he means "threatened".
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>>>>>>>>>I still don't understand what he means. Does he mean they make sure the customer is not a thread? If that is what he meant, how do they determine that? How do you know if Joe Normal buys a gun today, that he isn't going to catch his wife with another man tomorrow, snaps, and becomes a monster with a gun?
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>>>>>>>>Where does the customer come from? I mean he means "under a threat" as in someone's threatened the gun buyer.
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>>>>>>>Terry, are you under a thread? No? Here's a gun.
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>>>>>>ThreaT for f***'s sake!
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>>>>>That was honestly an accident... Jeez, I wouldn't give you a gun right now!
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>>>>Just cos you can't see the difference tween d and t doesn't mean I'd shoot ya, ... "Gat" King Cole.
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>>>>I still don't understand "...are you under a threat? No? Here's a gun.". Metin said they get a gun if UNDER threat, so why give me one if I'm not?
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>>>I see. I didn't understand it until now. So what he is saying is that nobody can get a gun unless they have some sort of reason to have it, such as self-defense?
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>>>What about people who hunt? Practice marksmanship? Collect? Shoot racoons who get in their garbage? Want to keep one in the house to protect their family if need be?
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>>Don't believe Disney, that has racoons in England, in "101 dalmatians", racoons only exist in N. America AFAIK. We have foxes and seagulls who rip our bin bags open but no-one wants to shoot them!
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>>As for your question: I don't care a hoot for people who want to shoot some poor doe-eyed critter, what's the need to practise marksmanship when there's no need to shoot anyway, what you mean "collect"?
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>>As for protect the family, M's Turkish laws seem to allow for that if under threat.
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>Gun collectors.

I think that should be discouraged; they end up like John Harvey! :-)