THE YOUNG MARKSMAN
HANDICAPPED BY ARMS ACT A strong plea for an amendment of the conditions governing the registration of firearms was made at™ nual meeting of the .National Kiiie As station at Trentham last might by Mr Kvle (Palmerston North). He said that tlie present system, whereby a boy, «ay an aspiring rifle shot, had to pay Is to register a rifle, served no good purpose. Under the existing legislation a young man who aspired to become a rifleman could not borrow his father’s rifle even. Good as the principle of registration was, he did not think that a boy should be so ‘‘ 11 «11’ 11 S9©cl • Air H. T. Marshall said ho did rot think’ the Arms Act in its relation to the registration of firearms snould be applied forcibly to rifle clubs.
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Dominion, Volume 18, Issue 151, 20 March 1924, Page 6
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135THE YOUNG MARKSMAN Dominion, Volume 18, Issue 151, 20 March 1924, Page 6
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