Odds he'll get away with it?

http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/2011/feb/27/ashley-cole-chelsea-air-rifle

From five feet. At least the kid had a sporting chance, then

Meanwhile, from the article

"It's truly inconceivable that a Premier League footballer could bring a gun to the training ground," a source said. "But Ashley pulled the rifle from a box and started larking about with it in the changing room."

Former Arsenal star Cole, 30, arrived at Chelsea's Cobham training ground in Surrey holding the weapon, complete with a muzzle and nightscope, last week. The incident was witnessed by a dozen members of staff, but Cole claimed he was unaware that the rifle was loaded. Cowan, a Loughborough University sports science student, was at the team's training ground as part of a year's work placement with Chelsea.

No expert, but if an air rifle is loaded and not fired, surely it loses pressure and the pellets literally roll out the barrel (we'll have a barrel of fun). I know someone who'd set up to shoot a mouse he had and, biscuit on the floor as bait, had the gun over the back of a chair waiting for the mouse to come out. It did after a half hour, he fired and the pellet went "drrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr-plop". The mouse died of laughter when it fell over in paroxysms of mirth and was squashed to death by the biscuit.

Bert wrote:http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/2011/feb/27/ashley-cole-chelsea-air-rifle

From five feet. At least the kid had a sporting chance, then

Meanwhile, from the article

"It's truly inconceivable that a Premier League footballer could bring a gun to the training ground," a source said. "But Ashley pulled the rifle from a box and started larking about with it in the changing room."

Former Arsenal star Cole, 30, arrived at Chelsea's Cobham training ground in Surrey holding the weapon, complete with a muzzle and nightscope, last week. The incident was witnessed by a dozen members of staff, but Cole claimed he was unaware that the rifle was loaded. Cowan, a Loughborough University sports science student, was at the team's training ground as part of a year's work placement with Chelsea.

No expert, but if an air rifle is loaded and not fired, surely it loses pressure and the pellets literally roll out the barrel (we'll have a barrel of fun). I know someone who'd set up to shoot a mouse he had and, biscuit on the floor as bait, had the gun over the back of a chair waiting for the mouse to come out. It did after a half hour, he fired and the pellet went "drrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr-plop". The mouse died of laughter when it fell over in paroxysms of mirth and was squashed to death by the biscuit.

the newer or more expensive guns that don't use springs probably don't leak air pressure as much and loaded in an air gun sense just means pellet in the breach, not charged or sprung?

either way he's a cunt who must have broken some firearms law so let's lock the cunt up for a couple of months with big vern and his freddie mercury loving cell mates

Don't know, Abdul, but sounds plausible. My story does date from the late 80s and it's never been an area I've had interest in. Strictly knives and face to face menaces here

quite agree bert, you could forget you'd lobbed a pellet in the breach last time you were playing with it but you never leave a gun sprung or charged when you put it away so you wouldn't find it like that, you have to manually do that so he has no defence, it's make an example time, 12 weeks with the ring splitters imo

Spot on.

years ago they did leak and had to be be regulary pumped,dunno about modern ones.
im sure he's a sandwich short of a picnic.