Countryside Alliance: Shooting Campaign Update

By Justin Stakes

London, UK -(AmmoLand.com)- This is a busy time for the shooting campaigns team.

This week we are attending a meeting of the Medical Evidence Working Group at the Home Office, a roundtable at Europe House with Vicky Ford MEP to discuss the Firearms Directive and a discussion at DEFRA debating the implementation of the Agreement on International Humane Trapping Standards. As always our position on all these issues is that law-abiding shooters and gamekeepers should be allowed to go about their activities without unnecessary government restrictions.

In the case of the Firearms Directive and the Medical Evidence Working Group we are forcefully arguing that the UK already has some of the most stringent gun control legislation in Europe, more than meeting the challenge of keeping firearms out of the hands of wrong-doers. At the Home Office we will be pressing for fairness, efficiency and transparency in any medical involvement in the firearms licensing process. At Europe House we will be resisting any well-meaning but ultimately ineffective changes to UK gun laws, which will serve no purpose except to inconvenience and disadvantage legal shooters. Proposals such …Read the Rest

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