According to this morning's Sunday Telegraph, "Richard Caborn, the sports minister, has backed a drive by shooting". OK, OK, not really! What the report actually says is "Richard Caborn, the sports minister, has backed a drive by shooting groups to increase participation in the sport among children as young as 12."
What the title of this post should really be is "Government Minister performs U-turn on gun laws". As you'd expect though, the anti-gun lobby have come out against his statement saying it's wrong to encourage young people to become as good as possible in an Olympic sport.
3 comments:
Is he now packing pistolery as well as riflery? The latter has never been banned or discouraged. Pistols have of course been banned to the chagrin of the sports pistol people and the modern pentathloneers.
If he has changed his tune on pistols it's not a non story. It is's rifles it may well be.
Pistoleering backed in principle. Kinda half a story there somewhere. With the fact it is a Mrs Marshall-Andrews hand-bagging Mr Cameron of some interest to this reader.
"Is he now packing pistolery as well as riflery? The latter has never been banned or discouraged."
Chris Paul, you are wrong, as per usual. ALL firearms are banned in this country unless you are a trained firearms police officer or in the army. You need a firearms license for an air-rifle with more than 12ft/lb of power. Perhaps this is what you are thinking of?
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