jpigeon3 Posted August 9, 2019 Report Share Posted August 9, 2019 More rubbish in the Sun. They seem to have an issue with shooting, bit this is just a silly article. https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/9677420/legal-gun-numbers-hit-record-high/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jpigeon3 Posted August 9, 2019 Author Report Share Posted August 9, 2019 https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/9677420/legal-gun-numbers-hit-record-high/amp This may be easier to read Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
butchdickason Posted August 9, 2019 Report Share Posted August 9, 2019 Typical twisting of facts to make guns/shooting seem a dubious pass time. The Sun newspaper will print anything to sell more copies. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
andrewluke Posted August 9, 2019 Report Share Posted August 9, 2019 this was written in the Daily Star yesterday Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scully Posted August 9, 2019 Report Share Posted August 9, 2019 An ‘elite sport with the trappings of social climbing’ eh? 🙂 Dont think I’ve ever felt ( or looked ) elite! 😂 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yellow Bear Posted August 9, 2019 Report Share Posted August 9, 2019 (edited) It looks like BASC et all need to have a few words in Professor Peter Squires shell like as this smacks of class war by our extreme left wing "friends" again. I'm with Scully on this one. University of Brighton says it all - left wing snowflake central. Edited August 9, 2019 by Yellow Bear Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ShootingEgg Posted August 9, 2019 Report Share Posted August 9, 2019 Professor Peter Squires, of Brighton University, said: “Shooting is an elite sport with the trappings of social climbing as bankers, sports and rock stars blast small birds. Now this is just a joke, I work in education maybe I should email this well paid elite to put him back in his box. Peoples perception of gun owners is so far removed... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bluesj Posted August 9, 2019 Report Share Posted August 9, 2019 Written by someone just to sell papers using information supplied by people with little grip on reality or their own agenda to push! In other words just a load of ballocks Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
udderlyoffroad Posted August 9, 2019 Report Share Posted August 9, 2019 Yes that Peter Squires quote appears to be doing the rounds. He's the auther of this paper, to which sadly I don't have access. https://research.brighton.ac.uk/en/publications/semi-automatics-for-the-people-the-marketing-of-a-new-kind-of-man Semi-automatics for the people eh? He should visit Switzerland if he wants to see that :p Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JohnfromUK Posted August 9, 2019 Report Share Posted August 9, 2019 1 hour ago, Scully said: Dont think I’ve ever felt ( or looked ) elite! 😂 In a way, we are the elite - because we enjoy the great countryside, its flora and fauna and the opportunities they provide. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ditchman Posted August 9, 2019 Report Share Posted August 9, 2019 yeah ...im elite i have a bow tie around my penus.................................. what a load of utter trash Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
islandgun Posted August 9, 2019 Report Share Posted August 9, 2019 Sun and star newspapers ....😂 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JohnfromUK Posted August 9, 2019 Report Share Posted August 9, 2019 (edited) Just now, islandgun said: Sun and star newspapers ....😂 More like the man in the moon! Edited August 9, 2019 by JohnfromUK Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jpigeon3 Posted August 10, 2019 Author Report Share Posted August 10, 2019 Another 3 anti articles in the Sun online again today, seems to be a daily thing on the online news. Generally have a scan of the online main media, And there is deffinatly a theme of daily stories some just rerun old articles. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mel b3 Posted August 10, 2019 Report Share Posted August 10, 2019 I think it's true , if anyone saw me stalking rabbits , wearing my home made camo jacket with holes in , my faded camo joggers with holes in ,and my camo bonnie hat with holes in, and my unshaven for three weeks face , they would say , yes sir , that sure is one very high class elite binman 👍. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
1066 Posted August 10, 2019 Report Share Posted August 10, 2019 16 hours ago, islandgun said: Sun and star newspapers ....😂 Unfortunately not just the Sun and Star - The whole article was in the Times on Thursday. https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/gun-owners-exploit-sport-to-win-licence-hwjk0rkrs Peter Squires is one of the driving force behind "The gun control network" a group of about half a dozen people (yes really) who seem to have the same weight placed on their opinion as on our national associations - The GNC are often asked to give "evidence" to various government committees etc. Peter Squires is also listed as an advisor to NABIS, the national ballistics intelligence service. Peter Squires is not your friend. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
islandgun Posted August 10, 2019 Report Share Posted August 10, 2019 28 minutes ago, 1066 said: Unfortunately not just the Sun and Star - The whole article was in the Times on Thursday. https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/gun-owners-exploit-sport-to-win-licence-hwjk0rkrs Peter Squires is one of the driving force behind "The gun control network" a group of about half a dozen people (yes really) who seem to have the same weight placed on their opinion as on our national associations - The GNC are often asked to give "evidence" to various government committees etc. Peter Squires is also listed as an advisor to NABIS, the national ballistics intelligence service. Peter Squires is not your friend. cheers.. reading the last couple of paragraphs , Bill Harriman put the argument well.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bostonmick Posted August 10, 2019 Report Share Posted August 10, 2019 (edited) I notice he says that people are obtaining certificates for reasons other than legal sporting activities. But gives no figures of how many are used for illegal purposes. And in Manchester I take it they have the national average of four per certificate holder but an extra one for the illegal criminal acts. Typical gutter press desperate to make sales by any means.. Edited August 10, 2019 by bostonmick Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
serrac Posted August 12, 2019 Report Share Posted August 12, 2019 "The most popular gun is a rifle, followed by 1.4 million separately licenced shotguns, with just two per cent of applicants being refused in 2018/19." Eh? Maybe if you include air-rifles... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dibble Posted August 12, 2019 Report Share Posted August 12, 2019 (edited) This is from The Shooting Times 12th Feb 1949, I bought some issues on Ebay........they are full of stuff like this........ Edited August 12, 2019 by Dibble Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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