It was the same tone yesterday about the shooting of turtle doves and quails in Malta. Another ***** by the name of Chris Peckham had travelled abroad to lead the protest
I don't know about the current situation in Malta, but they have earned themselves a reputation in the past for being a community of indiscriminate shooters with little concern for sustainability or their wider environment. Moreover, their location and terrain mean that most of the birds that pass in front of their guns are migrating from Africa to Europe, or vice versa, rather than species indigenous to the islands, so that what they do has an international impact.
Hopefully, a better informed SD member will come along and explain that this is all ancient history now, and that the Maltese have taken the situation firmly in hand, successfully inculcating a conservation-minded culture among the islands' shooters. Hopefully.
As for licensing, however many unnecessary complications might be removed (re-opening slots, reporting sales/transfers by post, pointless haggling over calibres, time spent correcting errors in gun details and conditions on returned certificates, etc.), the system requires investment if it is to be modernised and made more efficient. Where is that money to come from?
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