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    Steeling ourselves for change

    Apr 16, 2020 3 minutes

    THOSE who recall the Countryside Alliance’s dogged defence of the use of lead shot when its former executive chairman sat on the Lead Ammunition Group (LAG) might wonder why it and other bodies representing shooting have now changed their minds and issued a joint statement calling for the use of lead shot on quarry to cease within five years.

    One reason is that they do not wish to fight a battle they do not think they can win; they cite “over-burdening legislative changes coming down the line as a result of work being undertaken by the European Chemicals

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