Just another bloke on the Gun bus

There’s a phrase that I’ve come across on social media that has always given me pause for thought — the ‘ordinary shooting person’.

It is usually used in the context of bemoaning either the cost of shooting or some perceived failure of the shooting organisations — shooting is becoming too expensive for the ordinary shooting person, or the organisations have forgotten about the ordinary shooting person.

I suspect that when people use the phrase, they have a very clear picture in their head of what this person is like, the kind of places they shoot, how much money they have, how often they shoot and how much they spend on it.

What is meant by the phrase and does this ordinary shooting person exist? Shooting is a far more diverse