From: "Tim Jeffreys", [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Today I bumped into a friend who is a Labour party
activist, who wanted to know if I wanted go along to
the local MP-bating - er - question and answer
session this evening.
Knowing some of my shooting connections, he then
commented on what a good result the British medals in
the Olympic shotgun disciplines were. When I responded
about how it should stir up the antis by showing shooting
in a good light, he agreed, but then said that he still
thought the handgun ban was a good thing, because it had
removed them from people who had them for the wrong reasons.
As my hackles rose, rather than thumping him, I said to
him that I was one of those people, and that my shelves
were littered with medals and trophies for pistol shooting,
which I could no longer do in this country.
To my utter dispair, he replied that he thought I was
alright, because it was the "other ones" that were banned
and that I could still use mine in clubs, couldn't I ?
****I set him straight ****
He was quite shocked to learn the truth, and agreed that
it was a vote grabbing exercise, destructive without
practical merit, while violence with illegal firearms is
rising, and now knows why we don't have an Olympic
pistol shooting team to bring back a bag of medals...
This chap isn't stupid, but after 2 years he was still
under the impression that pistols were still legal for
target shooting, and it was only the "other" (whatever
that may mean) ones that were banned. How many other
people are out there still under this impression?
Now one less, at least...
Tim : {
Cybershooters website: http://www.cybershooters.org
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