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BASC raises licensing performance concerns with PSNI
Firearms licensing delays and police performance in Northern Ireland raised by BASC NI with PSNI Chief Superintendent responsible for service improvements
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Check your candidates’ positions on shooting before polling day
With just one week until polling day in the General Election BASC is urging its members and everyone who shoots to check their election candidates’ views on shooting before casting a vote.
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Value of shooting for wellbeing highlighted in new research
The Value of Shooting for personal and social wellbeing – findings from new research have been published in a BASC infographic
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BASC NI runs range day for deer stalkers
BASC members in Northern Ireland are being invited to hone their shooting techniques and view the latest range of equipment at a rifle range day on Saturday 18 April
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BASC NI briefs Assembly Agriculture Committee chair on the benefits of shooting
The Value of Shooting to Northern Ireland’s economy, countryside and social well-being were highlighted to the chair of the Northern Ireland Assembly’s Agriculture Committee
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BASC welcomes new firearms fees
The UK’s largest shooting organisation, the British Association for Shooting and Conservation (BASC), has welcomed a firearms licensing fees order which has today been laid before Parliament. The order contains Government proposals to increase the fee for the grant of a shotgun certificate from £50 to £79.50 with proportionate increases in other fees. The order will bring the new fees into effect from April 6 2015.
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New certificate fees: What you need to know Q&A
1. Why are fees going up?
Certificates fees have not increased since 2001. BASC has worked successfully to ensure that the increases are fair and reasonable and strongly resisted proposals to introduce unjustified higher fees which would have been a tax on shooting.
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Ulster Unionist Party support for shooting sports is ‘unequivocal’
The leader of the Ulster Unionist Party has written to BASC, to say his party unequivocally supports lawful shooting sports. BASC NI director Tommy Mayne, wrote to the leaders of Northern Ireland’s five main political parties to ask them if they supported lawful shooting sports. Mike Nesbitt, leader of the Read more…
