CS: Pol-Olympic shooters lobby for easing of handgun ban

[Jonathan]

From:   Jonathan Spencer, [EMAIL PROTECTED]

>Under Mr Straw's
>concession, weapons which are currently illegal in
>Britain will be allowed into the country under strict
>control.


>the Home Office is planning to allow
>competitors to hand guns into Customs on arrival in
>England. These will then be transported by police to
>the venue at Bisley, Surrey. Competitors will not be
>allowed to touch their firearms until they are inside
>the centre and will not be allowed to take them off
>the premises.

Really!  As if there would be the *slightest* risk of any misuse.  These
people want to win medals, not rob banks.  But then, if Jack *didn't*
impose such draconian control over these competitors, why he's have to
admit that the 97 Acts had no purpose.  And that would never do ....

--Jonathan Spencer, firearms examiner

"Justice is open to everybody in the same way as the Ritz Hotel."
Judge Sturgess, 22 July 1928


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