New Petition

[HALODIN]

I'll ask tomorrow night. Are these flyers or posters?

[Erika]

I'll ask tomorrow night. Are these flyers or posters?

Professionally produced posters, but of A5 size to ensure the greatest possible uptake, considering many venues only have limited noticeboard space. We are happy to explore large posters in A3-A0, but our primary focus is to distribute a large batch of the initial poster sized at A5.

[HALODIN]

I think flyers would be better personally, I never look at our notice board and if I'm out and I try and remember a web address it's guaranteed I've forgotten it by the time I get home. I would think it's better to have something someone can walk away with.

[nfrancis]

Professionally produced posters, but of A5 size to ensure the greatest possible uptake, considering many venues only have limited noticeboard space. We are happy to explore large posters in A3-A0, but our primary focus is to distribute a large batch of the initial poster sized at A5.

Don't you reckon it would be more beneficial to UK shooting to attempt to get 100,000 people out shooting rather than clicking links on a website?

[HALODIN]

It isn't mutually exclusive.

Don't you reckon it would be more beneficial to UK shooting to attempt to get 100,000 people out shooting rather than clicking links on a website?

[nfrancis]

It isn't mutually exclusive.

But I know what is more beneficial.....

[HALODIN]

We can do both.

It isn't mutually exclusive.

But I know what is more beneficial.....

[Demonic69]

It isn't mutually exclusive.

But I know what is more beneficial.....

Petitions.
Who in the government, general population etc. cares if you're out shooting?

I don't read my own signature!

[nfrancis]

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Petitions.
Who in the government, general population etc. cares if you're out shooting?

And these same people care about that fact that an organised and highly propagandist petition has a few thousand clicks on it? Hmmm.....

You are living in a dreamworld mate, if you think anyone cares about a few thousand clicks on an email petition. These things are largely a waste of time. We've had at least one every couple of years since the Firearms laws were changed in the 1990s. Stuff like this is not going to change anything - even if it makes people think they are 'doing their bit'. I'd actually argue they are counter productive for that very reason.

One letter to your MP is worth 10,000 clicks on one of these things.

Better still - if everyone who shot introduced just one of their friends/family/co-workers/colleagues etc into the shooting game it would be worth countless million clicks.

Just shoot - don't click.

[Erika]

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Petitions.
Who in the government, general population etc. cares if you're out shooting?

And these same people care about that fact that an organised and highly propagandist petition has a few thousand clicks on it? Hmmm.....

You are living in a dreamworld mate, if you think anyone cares about a few thousand clicks on an email petition. These things are largely a waste of time. We've had at least one every couple of years since the Firearms laws were changed in the 1990s. Stuff like this is not going to change anything - even if it makes people think they are 'doing their bit'. I'd actually argue they are counter productive for that very reason.

One letter to your MP is worth 10,000 clicks on one of these things.

Better still - if everyone who shot introduced just one of their friends/family/co-workers/colleagues etc into the shooting game it would be worth countless million clicks.

Just shoot - don't click.

The campaign for the return of .22 pistols is larger and more involved than a petition, and to our knowledge no petition has been so carefully prepared and achieved the level of support of the established shooting bodies as the one we have prepared and launched. We have taken steps to help ensure its success, but ultimately the strength of the petition is reliant upon individual people support it, that support is not reliant on shooters alone.

As for bringing new people into shooting, we encourage the same, and have a new campaign based around this theme to launch later this year.