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No shooting magazines for sale to under-14s
Country sports enthusiasts are furious at a decision by Britain’s biggest newsagent to ban children from buying shooting magazines after a campaign by animal rights activists.
WH Smith says youngsters under 14 will not be sold shooting titles, even though it is legal to hold a shotgun licence below that age.
And even adult customers attempting to buy a magazine featuring shooting now face a humiliating alert as staff receive a “till prompt” to check the buyer’s age. The high street retailer based the policy on the qualifying age for a firearms certificate and says checks are already in place for a range of products, including scissors and adhesives “where an element of common sense” is required.
However, sports groups point out that there is no minimum age for holding a shotgun licence in Britain, although children below 18 cannot buy or own a gun themselves and under-14s must be supervised by an adult.
Countryside campaigners say the company has shown a “complete lack of understanding of the law” and may now feel the backlash of an angry countryside.
Alison Hawes, South West regional director of the Countryside Alliance, said the ban was “ignorant and ridiculous”.
“I hope they will realise they have made a big mistake and have a change of heart,” she added. “If word gets around, as is likely, then it may be that country people will no longer buy their magazines from WH Smith.
“They are now going to face the backlash of the countryside rather than a handful of animal rights activists.”
AbigailAdams
October 17th, 2012
A campaign by animal rights activists??!
Whatever.
Wyatt, Insensitive Progressive Jerk
October 17th, 2012
This is the U.K. – they seem hell bent on killing any illusion that they have a free society.
MM
October 17th, 2012
A shotgun license? Pitiful.
I’ll never forget seeing photos in England of the lines of people wrapped around police stations surrendering their firearms.
Stranded in Sonoma
October 17th, 2012
So, you get your 15 year old brother to buy it.
Pretty soon they’ll be banning 32oz soft drinks. Wait…WHAT?
Tim
October 17th, 2012
Sure hope the unrest in Europe doesn’t affect Germany … again.
Britain is a pathetic caricature of itself.
GW Bear
October 17th, 2012
They’ll only sell you 32 ibuprofen at a time too.
serfer62
October 17th, 2012
Hey! Just tear out the pictures
Dahhhh
Hillbilly Lawyers
October 17th, 2012
You have to be an idiot dhimmi to want to live in the UK today. Or a muslim terrorist.
Heather
October 18th, 2012
If the mission of UK animal rights activist really is to have its effect, they had better invest energy into education program strategy rather than restriction enforcing market to be limited in its work. To develop a sense of awareness and responsibility for anything through limiting choices by laws is rarely a successful means.
loooong way to go
October 18th, 2012
“Britain is a pathetic caricature of itself.”
maybe 8 years ago i happened to see a old book at the local library titled, “1905-1965: From Empire to Welfare State”, England’s history according to somebody-before i got it home i realized it i’d never open the cover…it’d be way too painful to see the (progressive) steps the Brits took that encourage America’s fuktard libs to destroy the greatest experiment the world has ever known…