A growing craze of American combat-style shooting clubs is glamourising firearms – 25 years after the Dunblane handgun ban.
A Sunday Mail investigation has revealed a disturbing spike in “practical shooting” courses in Scotland which allow people to fire against the clock, using obstacles and improvised shooting positions to hit targets. Footage of one club near Glasgow, now being probed by council bosses, shows men ducking and diving around a course, pulling guns out of holsters before discharging quick-fire bullets.
Recoil Scotland said people – who do not hold a licence and who’ve never shot a gun before – can turn up for a three-hour training session and then get their hands on the club’s pump-action shotgun. Last night, gun control campaigners and families of Dunblane victims said the “sport” terrified them and called for a ban.
