Front page of today's Times

[25 Sharps]

Truth is we are all in borrowed time since the time most MPs ceased, themselves, to own pistols (including revolvers) and rifles. Cameron at least was/is a deer stalker.

But I doubt there's few in the HoC who ever were pistol shooters...nor is anyone else much born after, say, 1970.

The last class of weapon to go will be SBS and OU shotguns but anything else I think will be lost in my lifetime...I was born in 1957. Not necessarily by prohibition but by attrition and loss of rifle ranges to urban development.

Indeed current Home Office rules on shooting clubs for s1 weapons seen designed, almost, anyway to stop newcomers entering the sport unless there's already a strong family relationship or friendship bond.

Those that are members of shooting clubs using s1 weapons look around. How many of your fellow members are under fifty years old? How many under thirty years old?

80% of my home office approved club is under 50 and we are welcoming new members quite regularly.

 

[8x57]

80% of my home office approved club is under 50 and we are welcoming new members quite regularly.

You're lucky mate, that's how it should be. Unfortunately too many clubs are like gonzo describes and for the very reasons he said.

 

[User00048]

Just bog standard paper fear-mongering, same year in year out with anything firearms related. All dribble.

 

[gonzo]

In reality, even someone single loading rounds into the slowest rifle action, could probably expend more ammunition that they could carry, before the armed response turned up.
A slow action may give people more time to run? But in the recent NZ and Dallas shootings, the people were trapped, so rate of fire is of little consequence.


Didn;t the charitable status of shooting clubs get revoked some years ago?

 

[gonzo]

If you fancy another great bit of reporting:

Figges Marsh 'shooting': Woman and girl, 11, injured

Police are trying to trace a group of people seen in Figges Marsh, London, before shots were fired.

www.bbc.co.uk

"injuries are thought to have been caused by shotgun pellets fired from a pellet gun"