ChrisJones
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Who will ban shooting? Not sure. Who will make shooting so difficult to pursue, that people won't bother? Take your pick. Theresa May is already toying with the idea of changing the firearms laws, to consult current, or previous, partners of someone applying for an FAC/SGC. If that does come to pass your spouse, or your ex, could have a veto on whether the crown approves your application to own/possess a firearm. Will that make shooting easier, or not? Beater's Tax isn't going to bring down shooting. Never said that it would but it's a step along the way. Another bureaucratic speedbump
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Agreed. But we're arguing semantics again. Stopping it and making it illegal are completely different entities.
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I hope you're right.
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To the extremely rich cost prohibition is at a threshold that most of us can't fathom. Purdey's and Holland's cost more than the houses most of us live in. They'll never stop. They'll go abroad. But they're still shooting at the same target. We're still arguing the semantics. Divide and rule, etc, etc, etc... The badger cull is government sanctioned. Trespass on any shoot will shut it down. I'm agreeing with you that hunting carries on. Never disputed that, but using a dog to catch anything other than rat, or rabbit, is illegal in England. Link Printed On The THL Lurcher
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Love it!
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That's what I was getting at before the fallout! Even though they're outnumbered they're all shooting at the same target. It only takes one balaclava to shut down an entire shoot.
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Loud and clear, Moxy! I understand your frustrations! As I am unable to like your post I'll send this instead.
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Shooting times on the shotgun applications. BBC article stated that in Scotland firearm/shotgun applications were at a 10 year low but the number of firearms held is higher. I'll try and link to them if I can find them but it's been a while since I read them. I never asked a question. I'm saying that if you think that shooting will never be banned you've got your head buried in the sand. Cost prohibitive means that regulation and bureaucracy makes it so damn expensive, and time consuming, that people won't be bothered doing it in the first place. Britain has an amazing pedig
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I was fortunate enough to stand with 399,999 others at the Liberty & Livelihood march back in 2002. It's funny, I remember that, because there were a lot of people there saying the same thing about hunting with hounds! About how it would damage the rural economy and if they dare to go through with it they'll boot Bliar out of office! Same old rhetoric! Shooting can be saved but to say it will never be banned is just ridiculous. A stealth ban is where it's made so cost prohibitive that people will give up. The same way that changes to the SGC have seen a decline in people applying for t
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The best ones have about seven words in them. No pictures or anything else. Whole section should be removed.
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Yeah! They said that about hunting too. Done much [PREBAN] work lately? Stealth ban. They'll make it so difficult to do that most of the apathists, in this country, will say "f**k It, What's The Point?" They're already making beaters pay tax! Trying pointing your matched pair of Purdey's, at someone f*****g up the shoot. Good luck keeping your SGC. We point the finger at each other and say "F**k You, You Didn't Stand With Me So I Won't Stand With You" "F**k The Hunters" "F**k The Anglers" "F**k The Shooters" It amazes me that after 10 years, and 400,000 people mar
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Rightly, or wrongly, because of that we're no longer a fieldsports community. We're a collection of disciplines being picked off by a political agenda. I don't blame anyone for thinking that way, but while we all point the finger we lose something that the antis do have... Unity.
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LOL yeah! More likely to hear "I've Got An App For That."
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I hear ya there, mate. The thing is we don't have to fall to shit. We all grew up with generations of doomsday survivalists. Only we called them parents and grandparents. On a side note. To another post in this thread. With all the water in Wales. From the sky to the ground. How many kids today would know how to filter, and boil it, to make it safe to drink? Not a difficult skill but one that involves thinking of something other than turning on the tap.
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You mean 'some' didn't. Sorry...most shooters didnt give a f**k about us so long as they thought they were safe Classic divide and rule. If we don't learn the mistakes of the past, we're doomed to repeat them. Fieldsports will be dead in 20 years if we keep this up. The only hunting we'll be doing is in the meat isle, at Sains-Troseco...
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Possibly. It's still way too early in the day, to know exactly. There are still disasters, from years gone, that don't have accurate numbers. They probably never will. The people on the ground will still be in shock. Again it's easy to criticize when we see 30 second news clips, from first world journos. They're behaving exactly the same as I'd expect anyone, under the circumstances. The people on the ground panic and try to fix the problem, while the vultures circle from the comfort of their ivory towers. It would be the same here. Like the summer riots. Everyone outside of the UK loo
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The British taxpayer has already paid for the maintenance and replacement, of the infrastructure, several times over. The Thatcher government handed it all over, free of charge to the utility companies, when the Tory government began it's privatisation run. Utility companies were given millions of miles of pipe and cable for free. All on the taxpayer. Well done Westminster.
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Caution is needed. It's easier to lose an SGC than get successfully prosecuted for trespass.
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The risk of lead poisoning is always there, it is toxic, but mammals are more likely to detect it and spit it out. The danger, as we've seen with bird species, is when they can't chew but it's left to dissolve in their gizzards. They're far more susceptible. Personally, I use steel for game and feather. Tungsten for fin. I leave the lead for clays.
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It's easy to criticize when we're 10,000, or whatever it is, miles away. 24/7 Internet access and central heating... I hope that the earlier estimates, of casualties, don't come to pass. They're people just trying to make their way through life. Like the rest of us.
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Welcome aboard!
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Fair comment, BH. Nobody is expecting zero corruption but just to throw a little quote from the article... It's woefully unreported. The status quo needs to be kept, and they will brush it under the carpet. Fraud is to be expected, sadly. The problem, in my humble opinion, is the framework that they use to do it, to remain undetected, and with zero accountability, if they get caught on the off chance. I don't think it's unrealistic to demand tighter control, on the public sector, by the people who pay their wages in the first place.
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Your council tax at work! Council Fraud Cost £178m Last Year - Audit Commission Birmingham City Council's Children's Department Could Be Taken Over By The Department For Education Pay them for the service. Pay them again to fix the theft, and fraud, of the money. Time for a change?
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Our council tax at work!
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Thats a union flag on a flag pole , the union jack is flown on a ship Either definition is correct. Since 1908, at least. Union Jack? Or Union Flag?
