05/09/2026
Just a thought, Why would a government that has no budget, to equip our armed forces. Waste money on a new and better system. For people it would appear it does not want to have access to guns..? Worse the approx 500k license holders (lumping FAC and SGC into one group) of which 70% are 60+years old, suggests, if it takes 5+ years to agree, legislate, develop, test, implement and train the new service providers. Who are external to the police but answers to both the Police and Home Office and takes all the lessons from previous mistakes "fairly" into account. The elephant in the room is this, the largest body of "service users" aka the by then “geriatric gunmen” of the UK will more than likely be dead…! The users in the age groups 17-35 who would have the largest and longest benefit. Is only 11% of the current users, according to the governments own website. this is of the total number of users rounded down to make the numbers simpler. An efficient government that wants rid of "legal users of fi****ms" would simply ban the lot, at this revelation. As the numbers of active users suggests, the sport has effectively died out. Based on current data! Sounds drastic but it’s more probable, than the current government would spend any time and effort on a better system for law abiding people. It appears to actively discriminates against. It would seem more probable, the current government would organise and run a festival for left handed, none- violent fruitarians… to be more DEI than do anything positive for lawful, compliant fi****ms users, competitive shooters, prospective Olympians, the trade, collectors, re-enactment societies or historical researchers and defence manufacturing… just my take on a story that is unlikely to ever conclude in a positive outcome piece of news. addendum (surrey armoury fully supports left handed, none violent fruitarianism and furthermore does not condone the discrimination of this as yet unrecognised under represented group of society in it's struggle to be heard, to be better accepted for their beliefs and rights in a modern democratic system in which we all live....)