USE OF FIREARMS.
A Hastings Jury has added a rider to a verdict in a cas« of accidental shooting, suggesting that legislation should be passed requiring all persons using or having possession- of firearms to take out a license from some eomjKitent expert, after undergoing an examination. We are'afraid that legislation in this direction would impose an unnecessary hardship, and would prove very expensive. » The system of compulsory military training should do all that is ivouired. If young men are taught to handle the rifle, they should be abk\ also, to handle a gun without undue risk of accident. The indiscriminate use of firearms by small boys is another question. The Legislature has already made provision in respect to I this.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXV, Issue 10713, 3 May 1913, Page 4
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121USE OF FIREARMS. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXV, Issue 10713, 3 May 1913, Page 4
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