Game: Gun Sports

(asked on 20th February 2015) - View Source

Question to the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs:

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if she will require people shooting grouse for sport to have gained basic shooting skills, so birds are killed quickly rather than dying slowly of their injuries.


Answered by
George Eustice Portrait
George Eustice
This question was answered on 27th February 2015

The use of firearms is regulated under firearms legislation, which gives licenses to those who are deemed to be safe to use them.

It is the responsibility of the shooter and the shooting community to know what calibre is legally required or otherwise suitable for which quarry species and ensure sufficient levels of skill are attained to affect a clean humane kill. All game shooters are encouraged to comply with the recommendations in the industry’s Code of Good Shooting Practice, available online at:

http://www.codeofgoodshootingpractice.org.uk/page/11

Further protection from unnecessary suffering is afforded by the Animal Welfare Act 2006 where the animal is under the control of man (for example injured and within the control of man to address its suffering).

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