More than 250 Liberal Democrat parliamentarians and party members were introduced to shooting at the party’s Spring Conference in Liverpool. They were given hands-on lessons by accredited shotgun coaches using a state-of-the-art shooting simulator provided by the British Association for Shooting and Conservation (BASC), the UK’s largest shooting organisation. The Read more…
More than 100 Gamekeepers will gather for one of the best and most prestigious events for gamekeepers in Scotland on 18 March. Hosted by Scone palace the event provides an annual update on changes in the law, a forum for debate on important gamekeeping issues in Scotland and a clay shooting competition.
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.
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.
Time is running out to enter teams in a fundraising clay shoot which promises to be a highlight of the spring. The 2015 Countryside Clay Shoot will be held at the prestigious Six Mile Bottom shooting estate in Cambridgeshire on Saturday 23rd May 2015. The charity shoot will raise money Read more…
Bob, a seven-year-old English Springer Spaniel, has taken the top trophy as the overall winner of the BASC Gamekeepers’ classes at Crufts 2015. Bob is owned by gamekeeper Paul Drewery and his partner Helen Fox who live in Nottinghamshire. He was shown in the Gamekeepers’ classes by Helen Fox. The Read more…
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…
BASC, the UK’s largest shooting organisation with a membership of more than 140,000, was represented on Sky News today. Duncan Thomas from BASC North and Jack Depledge, one of BASC’s Young Shots Ambassadors, were interviewed for the piece about young people and shooting. BASC was represented in a live studio Read more…
The chairman of BASC, Alan Jarrett, has written to political party leaders in advance of the election thanking them for their support for shooting and asking them to confirm their commitment to evidence-based policy and principles of better regulation. The first reply to be received is from the leader of Read more…
