We’ve seen UK participation levels in shooting slowly decline in recent years, from 138,000 participating individuals in 2009/10, down to 91,000 in 2015/16. The reasons for this will never be explicitly clear, but we can make a confident assumption that the international gun violence we’ve seen in recent years has been a concern for many people. Questions about the safety of the activity will probably always be an issue in some form, but recent research data will show you that not everything is as bad as you'd think. In fact, there’s powerful proof that suggests firearm ownership and usage in
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