All people seeking membership must contact admin after registering to be validated.
https://ns1.full-bore.co.uk/
While not a threat to the status quo, it could be seen as one. :cool2:IainWR wrote:Hi
As the NRA is no longer represented here, this is just me.
I have never heard a TR shooter call the historics "the funnies". I have never heard a TR shooter resent the shotgunners (have you seen the cars they drive - they are mostly loaded in a way TR shooters aren't, and the money is wonderful). I can't comment on the negative views of other disciplines - I'm TR through and through. I agree we are fractured, but ramming different types of shooting together is a bit like getting lawn tennis, real tennis, table tennis, badminton, squash, lacrosse, hockey, hurling, shinty, ice hockey, baseball and cricket under one organisation. All of those have as their basic characteristic that they use an implement to hit a moving object. Shooting uses an implement to hit an object (which may or may not be moving). I submit that we are more diverse than the pastimes I listed. We have a common political and media problem that the chattering classes and their media friends see us as an easy target and most politicians don't have the balls to tell that group they are talking rubbish. But that is a different issue from coherent organisation in sporting terms.
Iain
Look in the NRA section and read the yellow header as to why we have locked the NRA forum.honsu wrote:
Hi Iain does this mean you guys have chossen to stop posting about the NRA or has the NRA asked you not to as there was not a post about this in the NRA section?
Sorrey for going of topic.
:flag5:
WTF!dromia wrote:Look in the NRA section and read the yellow header as to why we have locked the NRA forum.honsu wrote:
Hi Iain does this mean you guys have chossen to stop posting about the NRA or has the NRA asked you not to as there was not a post about this in the NRA section?
Sorrey for going of topic.
:flag5:
Very good idea.BestDrugDoc wrote:What about a slightly different approach:
How about setting up a "Firearms Certificate Holders Association" and a "Shotgun Certificate Holders Association" or similarly named organisations.
These associations would be able to draw on a wide variety of shooters who have an identifiable common ground - ie the certificates, and consequently the associations can lobby for and help shooters of all types with common problems and present a united front nationally. They would be able to claim a wide and easily identifiable and understandable membership base.
It seems a simple idea that could "do what it says on the tin". Individual disciplines will still have their own organisations and publications etc, but these new associations would be uniting bodies, dealing with the big picture.
In fact it could be one body "Firearms and Shotgun Certificate Holders Association"
Perhaps something new without a "track record" with shooters or the authorities and politicians could take things in a better direction for the benefit of all of us?
It would need a huge amount of co-operation from the "trade" and the shooting press to spread the word. Now as much as people are moaning about Blaze - I would suggest that James Marchington would be a good point of contact were this to become more than just an internet thread - he has a wealth of contacts, is very enthusiastic and is a nice guy on top of that too!Sandgroper wrote:Very good idea.BestDrugDoc wrote:What about a slightly different approach:
How about setting up a "Firearms Certificate Holders Association" and a "Shotgun Certificate Holders Association" or similarly named organisations.
These associations would be able to draw on a wide variety of shooters who have an identifiable common ground - ie the certificates, and consequently the associations can lobby for and help shooters of all types with common problems and present a united front nationally. They would be able to claim a wide and easily identifiable and understandable membership base.
It seems a simple idea that could "do what it says on the tin". Individual disciplines will still have their own organisations and publications etc, but these new associations would be uniting bodies, dealing with the big picture.
In fact it could be one body "Firearms and Shotgun Certificate Holders Association"
Perhaps something new without a "track record" with shooters or the authorities and politicians could take things in a better direction for the benefit of all of us?
One question I have relates to structure, voting and engagement with all shooters.
How do we form such an organisation from individual FAC/SGC holders? If we base it around clubs, we could miss the individual shooter.