Canvasback, a lot of the stupidity is written about in the shooting press but that is really preaching to the converted. The last Government we had in were anti fieldsports of any kind and were given a 'donation' to party funds of 1.5 million by an infamous anti hunting group and this led; although that particular Government would never have admitted to it, to quite a bit of anti hunting legislation. This particular Government are pledged to repeal a lot of that but still have a heck of a job sorting out the mess they were left. We did have a couple of shooting tragedies but at least the current lot are saying that no ammount of legislation would have had any effect. Gun crime is a problem here but confines itself to drugs related gangs using illegally held firearms by persons who would not be allowed to own such things anyway. Anyone with half a brain would be able to see that a good deal of the current firearms legislation makes not a jot of difference to armed crime but unfortunately some politicians rely on the gulible in order to win votes. Lagopus.....
