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
A web-based general election campaign site which helps people to lobby their parliamentary candidates on shooting has been launched by the British Association for Shooting and Conservation (BASC). The website will also identify where MPs elected to the next parliament stand on shooting. The site is the only UK lobbying
Try a taste of game during Great British Game Week 2014 Game dishes will be served across the country as part of Great British Game Week which celebrates all that is great about British game and is aimed at introducing people to the taste of game. People will be able
A decision to end the use of a dedicated Crimestoppers number as part of a police campaign on firearms security has been welcomed by the British Association for Shooting and Conservation (BASC). BASC opposed the use of a dedicated Crimestoppers line, which it said was neither necessary nor appropriate and
A new deer stalking scheme has been set up in Northern Ireland for members of the UK’s largest shooting organisation, the British Association for Shooting and Conservation (BASC). The scheme, the first of its kind in Northern Ireland, offers high quality accompanied foot and high-seat stalking over 10,000 acres of
International pistol shooter Geri Buckley has joined the Northern regional team of the country’s largest shooting organisation, the British Association for Shooting and Conservation (BASC). She takes up the position of North East regional officer on 10th November and will be based in East Yorkshire. Geri is the British record
David Davies MP has visited a clay shoot in his Monmouth constituency and praised shooting for its contribution to rural life. Mr Davies visited Keepers Lodge Clay Shoot, between Monmouth and Chepstow, for a shooting lesson with BASC-accredited shotgun coach Davie Smeaton. A clay shoot is run at the ground
A BASC social committee for members in the South West of England will be officially launched with a wild game supper. The supper will take place at Frogmary Green Farm, South Petherton, near Ilminster in Somerset, on Thursday 20th November and places should be booked in advance. The evening will
Airgun licensing in Scotland is impractical and will not improve public safety, according to representative bodies for police and lawyers in Scotland and BASC Scotland – a national representative body for shooting. Proposals outlined in the Air Weapons and Licensing (Scotland) Bill are described as unaffordable and unlikely to work.
