I was part of an informal soft air/CO2 shooting club back in the UK and had a very nice CO2 handgun which is still sitting there in storage.
Is there any chance in hell of me legally importing it to Taiwan? It’s a competition model 92FS made by Beretta that takes .12g ammo and could only hurt someone if you shot them in the face at close range. The UK has very strict gun laws yet this thing is legal but Taiwan is on another planet so…
Legal or not to import/own? If legal to own but illegal to import, is there anywhere selling CO2 guns in Taiwan?
There is a store set up in the RT Mart in Taitung selling them and there is also a club that alot of locals have formed here.
But I guess that doesn’t neccesarily make it legal.
[quote=“bobl”]There is a store set up in the RT Mart in Taidong selling them and there is also a club that alot of locals have formed here.
But I guess that doesn’t neccesarily make it legal.[/quote]
I did some research and pretty much all of the pro/high quality airguns are made in Taiwan. There is also a huge paintball/soft air scene here but I can’t find any information about the (il)legality of importing or even owning the things. Grrrrrr!!
[quote=“bobl”]There is a store set up in the RT Mart in Taidong selling them and there is also a club that alot of locals have formed here.
But I guess that doesn’t neccesarily make it legal.[/quote]
A coworker showed my one day a CO2 gun he bought on a night market.
He told me it is not illegal to use at home or in a shooting range, but it is forbidden to carry it either on you or in your car… :loco:
Taiwan has NO law which is clear, so…
I gonna buy one. They are around 2-3000 NT and very good quality.
Dead by airgun… hmmm… Tom hill could like it
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[quote=“ceevee369”][quote=“bobl”]There is a store set up in the RT Mart in Taidong selling them and there is also a club that alot of locals have formed here.
But I guess that doesn’t neccesarily make it legal.[/quote]
A coworker showed my one day a CO2 gun he bought on a night market.
He told me it is not illegal to use at home or in a shooting range, but it is forbidden to carry it either on you or in your car… :loco:
Taiwan has NO law which is clear, so…
I gonna buy one. They are around 2-3000 NT and very good quality.
Dead by airgun… hmmm… Tom hill could like it [/quote]
Same in the UK - the logic is that it’s illegal to carry any airgun loaded about your person but you ARE allowed to carry them unloaded in their packing case.
Mine was over US$300 and is probably sourced from the same place the nightmarket buys theirs (there are two major airgun manufacturers that I know of in Taiwan). As this one was actually made by Beretta it has the full weight and feel of the .357 version andd is very nice to shoot. Bear in mind that the majority of cheap gas guns are ‘green gas’ airsoft which are charged with a gas canister. Real CO2 guns use sealed gas cartridges that give you about 30-50 shots each and are great fun. Gas guns are actually much less lethal than the cheapo pump-action airguns because you can’t get any more or less power than what they are designed for. They also use soft lead diabolo pellets for accurate shooting rather than those nasty metal BB balls. The cheap guns can usually be pumped up ten or twenty times more than the legal muzzle velocity limit.
Hypothetically speaking, if an animal-welfare volunteer were to have imported a tranquilizer air-gun for use in catching stray dogs, would anyone hypothetically be able to hypothetically teach the hypothetical volunteer how to use it safely?
Probably your most difficult aspect of importing your gun from the UK will be getting an export permit from there. As yours is apparently a licenced weapon it will most likely be possible, but I suspect that it would be quite difficult.
I once had one of those Beretta replica air guns. My girlfriend shipped back to my home country in some boxes at one stage and it of course got picked up by customs. As it was a genuine error I asked if it could be shipped back to Taiwan at my expense and was told that it couldn
