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Getting a Gun is getting Expensive
« on: September 10, 2020, 10:22:22 am »
Many gun owners are facing steep gun replacement costs if proposed EU restrictions on lead ammunition are introduced.

The new rules will ban the use of lead ammunition over wetlands and moved closer to enactment in recent days.

The Irish Farmers Association has said that as the proposal uses the RAMSAR definition of a wetland, over 80pc of the country could be classed as a wetland.

"This will include farmyards and fields where farmers or their agents will need to use a firearm to protect livestock and crops," it said.

Under the new regulation, simply being in possession or using lead ammunition, a farmer or their agent will be breaching the regulations and open to prosecution.

Steel gunshots, which are the most likely alternative to be used, are available at a comparable price, but the IFA has said no consideration has been given to the cost of replacement shotguns, which are capable of firing steel shot.

Shotguns which have the correct safety requirement or which are proofed to fire steel shot have a replacement cost of over €2,000, it said.

IFA Environment and Rural Affairs Committee Chairman Paul O’Brien said he has serious concerns regarding the proposed restrictions on lead ammunition over wetlands.

He said the proposal is disproportionate and discriminatory toward farmers. At no point in the proposal is any consideration given to the farmer, landowner or their agent who have a legitimate need to use firearms to protect livestock and crops.

“IFA had pointed out to the NPWS on numerous occasions over the last two years the effects the proposed restriction would have on farmers. We are extremely disappointed with Minister Noonan, who had at the first opportunity shown little or no regard for farmers concerns, the custodians of the countryside,” he said.

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Re: Getting a Gun is getting Expensive
« Reply #1 on: September 10, 2020, 10:37:35 am »
You become a custodian of the countryside by shooting it?
Confused townie.

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Re: Getting a Gun is getting Expensive
« Reply #2 on: September 10, 2020, 10:42:09 am »
You become a custodian of the countryside by shooting it?
Confused townie.

YES .A Murder of Crows will strip a field of wheat or barley in no time a warren of rabbits will destroy a field of vegtables .Its called land management .Or a Hiace full of knackers will strip a gaff .GET A GUN

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« Reply #3 on: September 10, 2020, 11:13:44 am »
You become a custodian of the countryside by shooting it?
Confused townie.

YES .A Murder of Crows will strip a field of wheat or barley in no time a warren of rabbits will destroy a field of vegtables .Its called land management .Or a Hiace full of knackers will strip a gaff .GET A GUN
rofl
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Re: Getting a Gun is getting Expensive
« Reply #4 on: September 10, 2020, 11:29:56 am »
I needed that laugh johnny tanks ....
It's all very depressing int it .....

Apparently 10 % of the worlds population of wildlife has been wiped out since 2016
The headlines on rte and sky news this morning is all very depressing and the messege is .......thers too many of us .....
the chinese flu is a direct result of over population and deforestation and climate change .....and thers more pandemic to come because the chinese are going deeper into the forest so they can eat shite
The glaciers be gone in a cople yers ....California is on fire ...and the Brazilians president is deliberately setting fire to the rain forest... an Australia is bracing itself for the winter inferno that last year wiped out its wildlife and burnt 40 million acres of forest ....
The demise of the taxi game is probably the least of our troubles
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Re: Getting a Gun is getting Expensive
« Reply #5 on: September 10, 2020, 08:09:43 pm »
Ah fuk dat....that's gonna impact on the contract hits i've accepted and priced accordingly!!

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« Reply #6 on: September 10, 2020, 10:26:59 pm »
Leave the Crows alone, there all God's creatures
He who fears he will suffer, already suffers because he fears.

 


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