The British Association for Shooting and Conservation (BASC), the UK’s largest shooting organisation with a membership of 140,000, has written to the Shadow Chancellor Ed Balls to clarify Labour comments on increasing the cost of firearms licences. In the interview, Mr Balls said: “A few weeks ago we showed how in Read more…
The British Association for Shooting and Conservation (BASC) has welcomed the Home Office’s decision that firearms dealers in the UK will not have to establish and maintain electronic registers under a new EU directive. Initially, the Home Office had put forward a proposal to give firearms dealers responsibility for complying Read more…
The Northern Ireland Department of Justice’s latest review of the Northern Ireland firearms licensing system has been challenged by the UK’s largest shooting organisation, The British Association for Shooting and Conservation (BASC). The challenge came during a firearms licensing fees workshop at Stormont which was organised and hosted by the Read more…
The date of the 2015 Countryside Clay Shoot, organised by the British Association for Shooting and Conservation (BASC) and the CLA, has been announced. The charity shoot will be held at the prestigious Six Mile Bottom estate in Cambridgeshire on Saturday 23rd May 2015. The clay shoot will raise money Read more…
Her Majesty’s Inspectorate of Constabulary (HMIC) has invited The British Association for Shooting and Conservation (BASC) to participate as a member of a specially convened External Reference Group (ERG) to support their forthcoming thematic inspection of firearms licencing across twelve individual police forces in England and Wales. HMIC regularly conducts Read more…
Members of the Northern Ireland Assembly’s All Party Group on Country Sports recently visited one of Northern Ireland’s leading game shoots at the Baronscourt Estate in County Tyrone. The visit was arranged by the British Association for Shooting and Conservation (BASC NI) and the estate. MLAs were given a tour Read more…
A proposal to tax sporting estates in Scotland brings a real danger of unintended consequences affecting jobs, conservation management and business viability, according to BASC Scotland. The reintroduction of business rates for shooting and deerstalking estates, announced as part of a series of “radical” land reforms by Scottish First Minister Read more…
A cross-party group has been set up in the Welsh Assembly to promote shooting and conservation. The group has been set up by Assembly Members and will be supported by the UK’s largest shooting organisation, the British Association for Shooting and Conservation (BASC). It was officially launched at the Senedd Read more…
The UK’s largest shooting organisation, The British Association for Shooting and Conservation (BASC), has welcomed the Northern Ireland Department of Justice’s (DoJ) decision that firearms dealers in NI will not have to establish and maintain electronic registers under a new EU directive. Initially, the department had put forward a proposal Read more…
