For shooting sports in the UK, it has been the best of times, it has been the worst of times. Team GB won gold and silver at the 2024 Paris Olympics. However, it looks like it is the year an unsympathetic government in Westminster tries to take shooting out of the hands of the common man and make it a sport for the rich. Charlie talks to Olympic shooting gold medallists Peter Wilson and Nathan Hales about the feeling among British shooters, plus Christopher Graffius from BASC gives his view on the politics.
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