Firearms UK are of the same view expressed by some other organisations in that Durham Constabulary and County Durham & Darlington LMC have exceeded their remit and that requirements under existing law only require a disclosure of medical conditions.
Archive for category: Our Responses & Comments
In reply to @borocomphelp
This post is a response to a comment posted by @borocomphelp during a Twitter conversation on what shooting clubs and ranges can do to improve and promote shooting.
Open Letter to Lorraine Kelly, Scottish Sun Columnist
On Saturday 14/12/13 Lorraine Kelly spoke about Gun Control in the US one year on from the Sandy Hook tragedy. The article was full of the usual emotional based rhetoric with no consideration given to facts or the pro gun side. I tried to contact Lorraine via the E-mail...
Environment Minister announces new measures to tackle raptor persecution
Firearms UK supports the Scottish Governments efforts to tackle illegal raptor persecution and other wildlife crime…. However, buried in the Environment Minister’s announcement is the following statement; “I will be asking Scottish Natural Heritage in their capacity as the authority for licensing decisions under section 16 of the Wildlife...
Our Response to the GCN’s Mission Statement and Objectives
UPDATE: Write Your Own Laws – The Telegraph
Firearms UK is disappointed, but unfortunately not surprised with the decision of the Telegraph, however the law proposed by Colliemum, “Repeal the ban on hand guns and re-open shooting clubs”, does merit a vote and we would encourage everyone to support it.
Write Your Own Laws – The Telegraph
Firearms UK has commented on the “Write your own laws — and win prizes” article in the Telegraph. If you could take a minute to visit the page and “recommend” our comment it would be much appreciated. It should be near the top when the filter is set to...
Media Privilege
Trust the British Press to find new depths of sensationalism in the pursuit of profits. The Mail on Sunday have today published a piece that in their minds is an expose of an international security scandal, only they had to break several laws to do it, and will yet...
Response to Ed Pilkington, Guardian.co.uk
As expected it wasn’t long before those who champion the case for gun control laid the blame for the Boston bombings at the NRA (Pilkington, 2013). According to Pilkington, evidence has now come to light that Tamerlan Tsarnaev was on a national terrorism watch list; in spite of this,...
Supporting BASC’s New Campaign for Mobile Users
Today BASC have launched a new campaign aimed at mobile phone users. The campaign is to encourage people to get in contact with BASC via the website and report any problems they have experienced in accessing shooting related websites on their mobile phones. To tackle this problem BASC is...
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