Britain mulling gun-law change for 2012 Olympics

[MicroBalrog]

Britain mulling gun-law change for 2012 Olympics
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The British government has begun talks about relaxing gun laws in order to help their shooters prepare for the 2012 Olympics in London.

Sports Minister Richard Caborn is to meet Patrick Johnson, secretary of the British Shooting Sports Council, later this week.

Special permission has been given for shooting to be staged in 2012, but Britain's top competitors are currently forced to do most of their training in Switzerland.

Johnson said: "Between now and the Olympics, competitors need to train, but also, officials need practice and experience.

"Those two things need to be looked at fairly quickly if we are to have sufficient people in place by 2012."

Legislation banning most types of handguns was introduced after the Dunblane massacre in 1996 when Thomas Hamilton killed 16 schoolchildren and a teacher.

Culture Secretary Tessa Jowell said discussions on exemptions had taken place but no deal had been struck.

"In the seven years between now and 2012 we will obviously keep this under review," said Jowell.

"But we would be reluctant to argue that we move from the legislation for which we know there is a lot of public support for good reason."

A "Section five" exemption would allow the use of pistols for specific reasons for specific purposes.

This has already been used to allow pistols to come into Britain for the 2002 Commonwealth Games in Manchester.

Source: Xinhua

 

[blackmind]

I wonder something... If Britain's laws currently won't even permit their own shooters to practice for the Olympics, how would Britain HOST the Olympic games, should the IOC be so stupid as to elect to let it?

I mean, if they won't let their own countrymen have guns there and practice shooting with the for the friggin' OLYMPICS, how could they possibly have people bringing their guns from all kinds of other countries? Imagine the bureaucratic b.s. that they would put people through just to take their guns to the shoot!


I think that if Britain relaxes the laws for their shooters, at the very next Olympics, Britain's shooters should LOUDLY AND PUBLICLY CONDEMN THE FAILED GUN CONTROL EXPERIMENT THAT WAS CONDUCTED IN BRITAIN OVER THESE LAST 8 OR SO YEARS.

They should seek out as much publicity as possible to expose to the world how absurd Britain has become; how absurd it is that even Olympic shooters cannot shoot in their own country!


-blackmind

 

[Bog]

Meh. Too little, too late. The British People are now incompetent to carry weapons - this includes their police forces, I'm afraid.

Shame.