The Minister for Justice Equality and Law Reform, Mr. Dermot Ahern has outlined new proposals to seriously curtail the licensing of handguns in the state. The full text of his announcement can be found here.
The NTSA has no further details on how exactly this new regime will be implemented, but wish to point to the following paragraph in the Minister's statement "The Minister is prepared to make very limited exceptions in relation to Olympic sports only." Until we have further information, we are advising our members not to initiate any license applications for the present.
The Minister has also specified that radical tightening of the procedures for licensing handguns will be adopted and we assume that these will also apply to our members when they are published. We will advise you should any further details become available.
We
are delighted to announce this year’s Wilkinstown Open and Paddy Ashe
Cup, which are to be held in Wilkinstown Target Shooting Club’s range
on the weekend of the 31st of March and 1st of April 2007.
The formats for this year’s competitions are as follows:
Event One: Men’s Air Rifle Match.
This will be an Air Rifle 60 shot qualifying event.
Event Two: Women’s Air Rifle Match.
This will be an Air Rifle 40 shot qualifying event.
Event Three: Junior Air Rifle (Male and Female I.S.S.F. Juniors)
This
will be based on an Air Rifle 40 shot score. Juniors wishing to compete
in this Event must compete in either Event One or Event Two above. In
the case of male junior shooters, the 40 shot score that will be used
for this junior event will be the first 40 competition shots taken from
their 60 shot event above. In the case of female shooters the 40 shot
score which will be used in this junior event will be the same as their
40 shot event above.
There is no separate entry into this Event.
Event Four: Air Rifle Class Prizes
All
Competitors in Classes A, B, C, and D in air rifle will be able to
compete for prizes in these Classes. There will be three prizes per
class. For this event, the class prizes will be based on the first 40
shot score recorded from the 60 in Event One and the 40 shot score of
Event Two.
There is no separate entry into this Event.
Event Five: Air Pistol Match
This will be an Air Pistol 60 shot qualifying event, open to both male and female shooters.
Event Six: Paddy Ashe Cup
This
will be a closed match for members of WTSC and Castlemaine Club only;
the winner to be the highest scoring member of either club in Event
Five.
There is no separate entry into this Event.
Re-entry is not permitted in any Event.
The fees for Events One, Two and Five are as follows:
Adult entry = €15.00
Student and / or Junior entry = €10.00.
Event Timetable
Thursday 29th March 07
Start Time
Detail 1 8.00pm
Saturday 31st March 07
Start Time
Detail 2 10.00am
Detail 3 12.15pm
Detail 4 2.30pm
Sunday 1st April 07
Start Time
Detail 5 10.00am
Detail 6 12.15am
Detail 7 2.30pm
Presentation of the Paddy Ashe Cup 5.00pm
Pre booking is necessary.
No entries will be accepted after 5.00pm on Wednesday the 28th of March 2007.
Please contact me through the WTSC website or at acooney@iol.ie and/or at 046 9054167
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