Raptor-killing, poison-shooting, bog-burning, hare-killing driven grouse shooting is not having a great week. The day before yesterday, the EU (remember the EU?) Parliament voted to ban the use of lead ammunition in wetlands where ‘wetlands’ include peatlands such as blanket bogs where much (by no means all) driven grouse shooting occurs in the UK.
Now, the UK, you may have noticed, is no longer in the EU but we are still in the transition period and the report in the Guardian says that if the regulations come into force before 31 December they will apply to the UK, at least until UK governments (note the plural) decide what to keep and what to leave out in future (and all that depends on what sort of Brexit we get – but there’s plenty of time to think about that, it’s still November!).
Watch this space…
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The decision on this is about 45 years too late. But some have had to think of the Purdeys.
e.g.
https://www.guntrader.uk/guns/shotguns/purdey-james
Trying to retrofit such classics for the modern world isn’t an easy option.