22 RIFLES AND ACCIDENTS
Sir, —I think most farmers hoped that the .22 rifles taken over by the military would not be released to the public again. The pea-rifle is the most dangerous and at the same time the most useless weapon there is; it is owned in most cases by irresponsible youths and boys unfit to have a lethal weapon in their hands. In our district, only within the last three years, three sheep have been killed, one horse, and one pig wounded, and one bullet entered a farmer’s house, narrowly missing his wife. As an experienced rifle shot I would say that for the destruction of rabbits and vermin the .22 rifle is ineffective. For each hundred rounds of ammunition, not 10 rabbits are killed. Let us have cheap but safe shot guns, and cheap ammunition for them; it seldom requires more than one cartridge a rabbit. I hope that before long .22 rifles will be prohibited in New Zealand except for rifle clubs for use on the range.—Yours, etc., FARMER. Geraldine, June 2, 1943.
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Press, Volume LXXIX, Issue 23967, 7 June 1943, Page 6
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