This is the email box we need to fill until they're sick of us as well as completing the ticky box consultation document. A pitiful 1300 responses to the HACS committee (following the Cumbrian shootings) managed to overwhelm them, so lets at least give them the same number again
This is the email box we need to fill until they're sick of us as well as completing the ticky box consultation document. A pitiful 1300 responses to the HACS committee (following the Cumbrian shootings) managed to overwhelm them, so lets at least give them the same number again
Good call, I'll be doing this & will be telling them all of these new laws show that terrorism is winning, government is caving in to it & our way of life is affected unnecessarily.
I cannot understand why the above isn't being circulated by way of mailshot across the membership of all of the shooting organisations.
I am being told by several reps that there is a lot happening behind the scenes... and yet having been through a "surrender" before then I have yet to be convinced on this one.
What should be happening is the galvanisation of shooters as a whole... and yet the NRA as a charity is apolitical (I am a member by the way).
The most up front with updates has to be the FCSA (also a member) and due credit to Chris as the Chairman on this one.
Where are the BASC with the 600,000 shotgun licence holders?
breacher wrote:
The majority of shotgun shooters probably feel the same way about .50 cal and black rifles as they felt about pistols and semi auto rifles.
/\ This...
In 1978 I was told by my grand dad that the secret to rifle accuracy is, a quality bullet, fired down a quality barrel..... How has that changed?
Guns dont kill people. Dads with pretty Daughters do...!
I think the problem is lines of communication as much as apathy. For example I've seen several communications from BASC but nothing from the FCSA, but then i'm a member of BASC and not the FCSA....
I'm a member of 2 rifle clubs, and a clay pigeon club, the rifle clubs have at least 200 members each and the clay club about 25. I emailed the 3 club secretaries to send around at least the ticky box consultation link and guess which one did it (as well as posting it on their Facebook page), yes that's right, the clay club!! I've now managed to badger one rifle club to send it round but I didn't even get a response back from the other club secretary. I'm likely going to that club at the weekend so i'll be flapping my gums!
I have membership of three gun clubs and two clay shooting grounds.... and there are very few members who know what is happening.
We have a club within a club on Saturday afternoons and there are typically 12-16 people there. It is me that keeps them up to speed, the rest either aren't computer savvy or aren't interested.
HH1 wrote:I have membership of three gun clubs and two clay shooting grounds.... and there are very few members who know what is happening.
We have a club within a club on Saturday afternoons and there are typically 12-16 people there. It is me that keeps them up to speed, the rest either aren't computer savvy or aren't interested.
I reckon a lot of shooters will start collecting stamps or take up golf if shooting was made illegal. For the many shooting is not a passion, it is a pastime and as such it can be replaced with something else that takes one's mind off work.
That is not the case for me however no matter how loud I shout not many are paying attention. Not paying attention is a mindset a lot of shooters have, something the more passionate of us can't change.
I'm a member of two clubs. One of them, a small club, I am a committee member of and keep people up to date of all this type of stuff, providing links and explaining why we need to have our voices heard along with another committee member.
Another club has put out numerous and repeated comms via email, got stuff in the club house and it was a main discussion point in the recent AGM. The passion by those involved in encouraging the membership to have their say has been great to see.
