I may be paranoid but I have come around to believe despite not wishing too and having a strong belief in democracy that shooting in this Olympics is being influenced by an anti gun political conspiracy, this is not the place to go into depth on the facts and history of Lord Coe but suffice to say that being very diplomatic that he is not known for being pro shooting.
I have written 5 letters to my MP on the issues surrounding the Olympic shooting fiasco, and not even recieved one reply despite repeated chasing, I have written direct to the Sports Minister on all the issues, not being a permant site, the refusal of use of it for domestic championships even though it is complete and not being used, the refusal to make the World Cup trial even open to spectators. At least he did reply, his reply was that it was not his responsibility, it was all down to LOCOG (back to Coe agin!). He gave Locogs reasons for all the issues, which were ridiculous so I replied pointing out the correct facts, he replied again, stating, "the Minister has nothing more to add."
We had the case last year when LOCOG tried to exclude shooting from the sports to be covered by the free issue of tickets to school children, initialy stating it was not a good example for them, and then being forced to back track when the press got hold of it.
In our club we have just had 2 members win British air gun championships, and three more win medals and cups, our local area newspaper did not even print the report given to them, but in the same week printed an anti gun article which was factually incorrect and to call it a rant was being polite.
So we have to accept that as we are a tiny minority that all shooting however serious is not politicaly accepted in this "democracy" and pistol shooters however serious are the lowest of the low, that place will go to a shot gunner. Sad but true.
Good shooting
Robin