Response to British Association for Shooting and Conservation (BASC)
Concerns were raised in March 2023 by Mr Ian Bell, the Chief Executive Officer of the British Association for Shooting and Conservation (BASC), about the accuracy of the interpretation of data in the above SHOT-SWITCH publications. We responded to these concerns on this website on 19 April 2023, but we have since found additional relevant information (of which we were previously unaware). We have therefore updated our response in the document linked below. Our findings continue to indicate that Mr Bell’s concerns are not supported by any of the several types of evidence currently available on this topic.
We are grateful to Mr Bell for this opportunity to clarify the interpretation of SHOT-SWITCH evidence in detail and for agreeing that we could identify in our response the concerns he raised and their source.
