Pádraig Mac Lochlainn (Donegal North East, Sinn Fein)
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I accept there is a need for legislation in this area.

The Olympic Council standards were referred to but the council defers to those of the International Shooting Sport Federation. We are not the United States of America with a massive problem with gun crime. I lived in Chicago for a short while and there were gun killings almost every day. The gun culture in the United States is indefensible. My dilemma is how we deal with international shooting sport standards. It is argued some of these proposals would penalise those involved in shooting sports. How can we apply international shooting sport standards in this regard? Could it arise that people using such weapons for sport and competing internationally could not do so because of these proposals?