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Our sport must move with the times

With regards to the dismay voiced by many shooters on the subject of our representative bodies embracing the voluntary ban on lead shot, I feel that many are missing the point.

It seems clear to me that the furore that has erupted among the shooting community, and the reaction to this subject, vindicates those bodies in taking that stance. It is inevitable that lead will be banned.

Times change and we have to move with them. Had BASC and others not taken this stance then I fear that this in itself would

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