How about first you respond to the points I made regarding the present inadequately defence of shooting by BASC and the preposterous situation that had them opposing further legislation while their representative spent most of his time posting in support of further lead restrictions . Does confronting that make you feel uncomfortable. It seems you have problems facing up to the reality that BASC has let you down and continues to let you down.
You have absolutely no idea what you’re talking about.
Under initial ECHA proposals, ALL lead ammunition plus lead fishing weights were to be banned. Those proposals were successfully watered down by negotiation and exemptions to the universal ban were conceded. Your National legislation is following a similar trajectory. There was absolutely no chance that the majority of shooters would not be affected in some way by the ban, therefor the national shooting representatives prepared their members for the transition.
Exactly what I would both want and expect them to do.
Your request for me to explain what I would do to deal with the current legislation is a simple deflection from focusing on the inadequacies of BASC’s campaign to oppose further lead shot restrictions.
We’re all still waiting and its no deflection.
You constantly harp back to the past, you refuse to engage with the future. Its an utterly pointless exercise.
You will already have read my posts regarding concessions and exemptions for Damascus barrelled guns short chambered small bores and .410s on clay grounds and the exclusion of clay shooting from lead shot restrictions
There was a strong resistance from the officials to granting any exemptions to the regulations, you listed 6 in half a sentence, just not happening, in no small part due to our proven track record for non compliance with existing restrictions.
“you continue badgering me for what is in reality irrelevant information. I am not able to dictate the terms of future legislation.”
Absolutely not true, I asked you how you would deal with the current HSE proposals, which are a matter of public record, not speculation.
At no stage did I request that you “ dictate the terms of future legislation”.
We still await your roadmap for the future of shooting.
What would you do other than roll over and accept every limitation without a peep and wholeheartedly support an organisation which you are incapable of noticing has let us all down ?
Once again, you have absolutely no idea what you are talking about. Lead restriction proposals have been the subject of constant discussion and negotiation at EU level for over 40 years. The national shooting bodies of all member states were present and not one of them has succeeded in challenging the official position, this includes your UK bodies pre BREXIT.
Your national bodies have no more let you down than have ours or any other EU countries.
We simply could not counter the scientific arguments supporting the proposed restrictions.
I know that there are several contributors who reject the scientific WHO findings that lead is harmful, we tried that and got laughed out of the room by adults who had actually read the studies. They weren’t accepting anecdotal evidence of 90 year old aunts who smoked, drank and ate lead sandwiches every day of their lives with no ill effects, they weren’t interested in lead flashing, they weren’t interested in lead pipes and they weren’t interested in naturally occurring background environment lead contamination.
They had a single item agenda, restricting lead in ammunition, thats what they stuck to, thats what they did.
Under the circumstances, I think your shooting representatives and ours did rather well.
