I AM sure most Citizen readers will have been pleased the government has abolished most handguns from being used in sport.

However they may not be aware there is one so called sport which has been exempted from the legislation.

Foxhunters are still going to be allowed to carry handguns over .22 calibre.

This seems particularly dangerous especially when these so called sportsmen often find themselves in confrontational situations with those who object to our wildlife being killed for entertainment. Hunters are also exempted from interfering with badger setts without a licence, allowing dogs into fields of sheep, from inflicting gross cruelty to animals under the Wild Mammals Act and from prosecution for criminal trespass under the Criminal Justice Act.

Is this what is meant by positive discrimination?

Kevin Saunders,

League Against

Cruel Sports,

Union Street,

London.

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