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Correction re MoD Cadets at Cultybraggan
Editorial
Filed 18 Apr 04
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In relation to the article "So this is
how the MoD educates kids to behave in the countryside"
(Click
Here to View), a reader has emailed the editor to say
that in fact orange clay pigeons were being used as targets for
the youngsters armed with twelve bore rifles with live ammunition.
Be that as it may, the safety procedures adopted were clearly far
from satisfactory - indeed possibly even more worrying if an inexperienced
kid might be tempted to swinging his/her weapon to the left or the
right according to which orange clay pigeon might pop-up. At least
I thought they were firing twelve bore cartridges at stationary
objects.
Land-Care has also since been informed that, in
the view of a reader of the article in the Strathearn Herald
(15th April) by Andrew Welsh entitled "Cadets' gunfire
could have hit me - farmer", there should have been a form
of guard or cage that would prevent shot from a rifle being fired
over too wide an angle, thereby reducing danger to others.
It does seem that the MoD should revise
their policy of how guns with live ammunition are used in fields
adjcaent to where persons work. They should also reconsider who
should be using such weapons and tighten up on the supervision that
persons of a suitable age are given.
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