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Straw May Permit Pistol Shooting at Manchester Games

14 August 2000

Times (UK)

The Home Secretary is considering proposals for pistol shooting to be reintroduced as a sport at the 2002 Commonwealth Games in Manchester without compromising the controls brought in after the Dunblane massacre. Home Office officials have confirmed that the Government has received applications from overseas sporting organisations to bring pistols into Britain for the competition. It is looking at ways of allowing the British team to train in this country rather than... (GunPolicy.org)

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