Alan Farrell (Dublin North, Fine Gael)
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I mentioned a shooting earlier, about which I read online. It was an international incident. I am afraid I do not know the name of the manufacturer but it was a derivative of, or was based on, the M16. As I said, this particular weapon was available in Ireland and one could license it if one chose to do so. I accept the point about the 145,000 shotgun or rifles legally held in Ireland. I would like to address the rifle side rather than the shotgun side because I am not from a farming background but from Malahide and I accept there are reasons people would have shotguns, if from the farming community. From a rifle perspective, I would like to tease out a little more information as to the uses of such rifles. I appreciate that some smaller calibre weapons can be used in the same manner a shotgun is used in the farming field but I am sure there are rifles which are deemed inappropriate for the general public to own. Is the list of photographs provided to the committee an exhaustive one of such weapons?