IN his letter Ian Waghorn, secretary of the York Jubilee Air Rifle Club, seeks to defend the air rifle by claiming that many other ordinary items such as bricks can be used to inflict injury (December 20).
Of course they can. But bricks are produced to build. An air rifle has only one purpose - the violent projection of a slug at a target, animate or inanimate.
JA Brough,
Yearsley Crescent, York.
Updated: 09:39 Thursday, December 23, 2004
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