Editorial and Features

Here you can read the editor’s ramblings on a variety of shooting issues and topics.

Editorials

April 26, 2018: The Tories’ offensive Offensive Weapons Bill

October 11, 2017: The Tories are not our friends… and other tales of woe

July 19, 2016: Autopsy of a gun ban

February 25, 2016: The Law Commission reports

November 21, 2015: Brussels panics

October 2, 2015: Et tu, HMIC?

August 5, 2015: Yet another consultation

May 2, 2015: Election 2015

November 26, 2014: Combining paranoia and the police state, the ACPO way

January 6, 2013: Why stopping mass shootings with gun laws is probably impossible

October 8, 2012: Scottish Gun Lunacy

December 31, 2010: The Committee and the Gorilla

June 15, 2010: Cumbria

March 30, 2010: Finally, an actual election

November 27, 2008: Another scapegoating at hand

January 7, 2008: Obscure things you should know about

June 30, 2007: Bye bye Blair

April 1, 2007: Out of ideas and out of time

June 4, 2006: More legislative nonsense

April 1, 2006: Gold for Gault

February 26, 2006: Targeting the right people

December 27, 2005: Oh, no, Canada!

November 27, 2005: Arm the police

June 18, 2005: Another pointless prohibition looms

April 15, 2005: A voting we shall go…

February 12, 2005: And finally, some good news…

May 13, 2004: The Government wants to know what you think about guns… again

December 23, 2003: Why gun bans stink

October 18, 2003: More armed crime?

January 19, 2003: Another day, another knee jerks…

September 8, 2002: Coming to their senses, a bit too late

May 5, 2002: The Disaster Facing Shooters in Europe

February 22, 2002: ACPO, again

October 23, 2001: The fallout from terrorism

September 7, 2001: Disarmament hasn’t worked, but no-one admits it

August 20, 2001: Labour’s gun policy backfires

May 15, 2001: Time to vote

March 6, 2001: Five years later…

January 21, 2001: Law and Disorder

October 9, 2000: The Government’s Opinion

May 4, 2000: …well, it wasn’t all bad

April 2, 2000: Lies, damned lies, and hey, you know the rest

January 23, 2000: Tony Blair and the BS Brigade

July 15, 1999: Assassins and rampaging gunmen prove folly of gun laws

January 1, 1999: For God’s sake, let us defend ourselves!


Features

Shooting Abroad

Tir Federal 2000

Swiss Ammunition

Royal Armouries

Morges Museum

SHOT Show 2002

SHOT Show 1999

IWA 2000


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