The UK's Finest Independent Forum for Shooters and Gun Owners. Est 2010.

I don't know very much about the British NRA, apart from what I've read here, but it strikes me as very insular. If we need to unite against an affront to British shooting, then members need to hold their feet to the fire and demand they represent British shooting. I assume they can all be voted out by the members, if so - remind them of it, failing that don't renew your membership en masse.

At some point we all need to stand up for our convictions, the internet is our gateway to make that happen. "Everybody gets what they deserve."

I think we do the NRA a profound injustice in continuing to think that they are representing the interests of UK gun owners, they run Bisley shooting centre and are a governing body for some competitive disciplines they are nothing beyond that.

Our greatest weakness is that we have no membership led organisation representing gun owners in this country, the discipline and special interest bodies, including BASC will cut each others throats in the interest of self serving survival at the expense of gun owners.

The HO, new ACPO and all the other anti legal gun ownership tribes/factions know this and will exploit it just as soon as the government gets time to look at legal gun ownership in the legislative process.

Social media seems to be phenomenon of the under middle age generations and as most shooters are older than that it will have little impact in mobilising coherently and meaningfully when the time comes.

It doesn't have to be social media, we've all seen the power of petitions. Where there's a will there's a way.

dromia wrote:Social media seems to be phenomenon of the under middle age generations and as most shooters are older than that it will have little impact in mobilising coherently and meaningfully when the time comes.

That is true, but it needs respected and trusted leadership and organisation to mobilise and take our case for legal gun ownership forward and that is what we lack.

We need this to be happening now, not when the coup de grace is poised, legal gun ownership is steadily being eroded and no one is doing a damn thing about it nationally.

I agree, but that's the power-vacuum no one's prepared to fill. Thankfully necessity is the mother of invention.

We have had the necessity for years unfortunately invention has failed to arrive.

Well in the meantime, the members can at least put the management of our representative bodies on notice. They exist because of us, not the other way round and I assume they all have AGM's and elections.

Here's a quick video from Firearms United about the European firearms conference 16 Nov.

https://youtu.be/aq_40Kw7COE