UK shooting lobby ready to resist stricter shotgun licensing

Powerful pro-gun groups plan to lobby ministers as calls mount to raise shotgun ownership barriers following Plymouth killings

The powerful UK shooting and countryside lobby has vowed to fight demands to tighten the rules around shotgun ownership that followed the conclusions of the Plymouth shooting inquests.

Organisations that promote shooting and other countryside pursuits are planning urgent meetings with UK ministers, arguing many people would be “regulated or priced out” of the activity and may even be tempted to keep guns without a licence.