From: "Derek Bernard", [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> But the Swiss range standards .... are really tight,
> they have all sorts of stuff now about noise abatement and preventing
> damage to the environment and so on. I don't think that is a good
> example of laissez faire.
>
> Yes, it would be wonderful if we could get the bureaucrats out of it,
> in the short term though having the HSE do it would be a major advantage
> because the HSE would follow some sort of objective standard (I hope)...
>
> Steve.
>
Yes, you are right that their noise abatement standards are a pain .... but
the fact remains that they sqeeze very large numbers of excellent ranges
into nooks and crannies to an amazing degree, across valleys and over
footpaths etc. and their range safety record is superb: in the past 10 years
or so no known case of death or even injury due to bullets leaving the
range; and one spectator death on a range, due to a shooter carrying a
loaded rifle off the firing point.
Giving this job to the H & SE will be a recipe for disaster. And it won't
be short-term either, once they,ve got it, extracting it from their clutches
will be nigh impossible (until all the ranges have gone!).
Derek Bernard
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But the Swiss have all those lovely big mountains for backstops plus
Switzerland is a very rural country; Zurich only has a population of
350,000.
I'm not really sure there is any easy solution to this problem.
Steve.
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