AUTOMATIC GUNS
PROHIBITION WTTvrn-RAWN TEMPORARILY. The use of automatic guns by sportsmen was prohibited some time ago under the Animals Protection Act of last session. Some sportsmen .protested that it was unfair to make their puns illegal at short notice, since they would be compelled 1 either to buy new weapons at the high prices of to-day t>r else forego a season’s shooting. An amending regulation, was issued later permitting the use of the automatic guns provided that bolts‘had been inserted in the magazine in such a way as to limit the number of cartridges used in a single loading to two. This iirrangement would piit them on the same basis as ordinary double-barrelled guns. Sir Heaton Rhodes told a- Dominion' reporter yesterday that the matter had been reconsidered in the light of further representations. He had found that it would not’be possible to have the alteration effected before the opening of the shooting season, and he had issued instructions, therefore, that the prohibition of tile use of automatic guns should not be enforced this season.
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Dominion, Volume 15, Issue 182, 29 April 1922, Page 8
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176AUTOMATIC GUNS Dominion, Volume 15, Issue 182, 29 April 1922, Page 8
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