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Minister Dermot Ahern Outlines Handgun Ban
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.
 
 Friday, 21 November 2008
Target Shooters and Cyclists raise 1,800 euro for Children in Need PDF Print E-mail
Written by Mark Dennehy   
Monday, 24 May 2004
The previously mentioned CycloShoot charity event took place this Friday in Wilkinstown, and was a roaring success, raising over 1,800 euros for the Children in Need charity. Photos of the day are in the photo gallery here.

The CycloShoot consisted of bicycle riding and air rifle
shooting. The participants shot at falling plate targets
with air rifles, then mounted their bicycles and cycled
a circuit of 4.5miles (leaving the air rifles at the
Wilkinstown range). On their return, they then shot at
another series of targets with air rifles. As this was a
charity event, the participants all wore costumes for the
event.

This was the first time anything like this has been done in
Ireland, and generated a great deal of interest locally,
with the cyclists being flagged down by observers and given
donations for Children in Need on the spot. Sponsorship for
the participants also ran high, with one participant, Jim
McGuirk, rising a thousand euros on his own.

The Chairman of the Wilkinstown Target Shooting Club, Matt
Fox, also donated a DVD player to be raffled off on Sunday
Night in Tiernan's pub in Wilkinstown, the proceeds of which
were also donated to Children in Need.

Several members of the Navan Road Club now appear to have
been bitten by the Target Shooting bug and will hopefully now be
taking up the sport on it's own in the Wilkinstown Target
Shooting Club, as will some observers who were watching the
event.

Given the success of the CycloShoot, the National Target
Shooting Association (the National Governing Body for
Olympic Target Shooting in Ireland) in conjunction with the
Federation of Irish Cyclists will be looking at the prospect
of establishing Summer Biathlon as a serious competition
event for the future, and the CycloShoot itself will be run
again for the 2005 Children in Need telethon.

Congratulations to all involved, and well done!
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