[R. Scott]

Team members currently spend about 20 to 30 days a year training in Switzerland, and receive no funding because their events are illegal in the UK.

That won’t make it, even for local competitions. When I was shooting competitively on an Army team we fired every day, anything from 500 – 1000 rounds a day. It took a month to get up to speed just for the local round.

"The banning of handguns wasn't a matter of eroding personal freedoms, it was a matter of ensuring that what had been shown to be a terrible, if statistically small, risk was removed," she said.

OK, and what has happened to the handgun crime rate since that risk was removed?

[elbucko]

OK, and what has happened to the handgun crime rate since that risk was removed?

It became statistically larger.

A forseen consequence by many shooters here in the USA.

[MarkL]

That won’t make it, even for local competitions. When I was shooting competitively on an Army team we fired every day, anything from 500 – 1000 rounds a day. It took a month to get up to speed just for the local round.

No kidding... When I was shooting competatively (on the amature level), I was going shooting 3 or 4 times a week. I averaged about 500-1000 rounds of .22 a week, and 300-500 rounds of .45ACP, and the occasional .41MAG and .44MAG rounds (50-100) every week!

BTW, there's a shooting range that I used to go to run by the MO department of conservation. I was kicked out of that range for "firing too quickly." I was just doing timed fire (not rapid fire) practice!

I also got in trouble the first time I brought my M-14 out there, just to sight it in (it's only a 100 yard range). They didn't like the magazines, but luckily I had brought a legal hunting mag that was blocked down to 5 rounds. Still, it LOOKED like a 20 round mag, and after a few minutes they decided that if I wanted to continue shooting the rifle, I would have to fire it single shot!

Mark