A well-placed source has advised me that there are moves afoot to ban straight pull firearms by ‘bracket creep’. I am not naming my source. I would however describe the quality of the source and thus information as A Grade, as the source does not deal in the typical shooter gossip that one often hears around ranges. I have however been told that the reason is that they can be converted to semi -automatic operation. There would appear to be no sensible statistical ‘business case' for the move, particularly given a long-term pattern of falling firearms crime rates, and absence
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