The difference you will notice straight away
Support shaped by experience
We have been supporting members since 1984. That experience helps us provide practical, knowledgeable guidance without unnecessary jargon.
Help that goes beyond insurance
We do not stop at cover alone. Members can also access practical guidance on firearms licensing and related legal issues when they need support.
A voice for member interests
We monitor legislative developments and issues affecting lawful activities. We also represent members' interests collectively when dealing with government and other relevant bodies.
What we offer
Shooting / reanactment membership with PLI
Shooters' Rights Association members do just about everything legal: backed by Violent Crime Reduction Act compliant Public Liability Insurance - air soft, archery, battle re-enactment, collecting, hand-thrown (usually knives or axes but nothing is excluded, so javelins, shot-put, caber, down to darts) living history (all periods, cavemen to Ukraine); shooting - air soft, air guns, antiques, blank firers, cannons, catapults, crossbows, firearms, long bows, shotguns and anything else legal at the time. £49.50 to join as an individual: £30 a head for groups, minimum of three
Re-enactment and living history
Re-enactment incorporates all periods from the bronze age to modern warfare. You will see them at shows large and small over the summer. Living history members wear their costumes and explain their roles in history but don't fight. You'll see them at shows, castles, English heritage sites and such where event organisers require them to have the £10 million PLI that comes with membership. Air soft has an interesting position in history. Our PLI has mentioned air soft skirmish since the 1990s but most owners are not skirmishers. They might be target shooters or collectors but that's all the same to us. Every membership includes the PLI to provide vendors with a defence under the Violent Crime Reduction Act.
Firearms advice and representation
The Shooters' Rights Association was formed in 1984 by Handgunner magazine editor Jan A Stevenson as an organisation for he and other magazine editors and RFDs to refer shooters with problems to. And we have been doing that ever since. If you have a firearms licensing problem, that is what we are here for. Most SRA members do not have problems but do keep an eye on our quarterly journals for issues as they arise. When you do have a problem, bring it to us. For the price of membership we have sorted out numerous problems successfully. It pays to be a member for you never know when it might happen to you.
Firearms member support across the British Isles
Whatever you do in the shooting sports, re-enactment, living history through to air soft and collecting, we support your activities. Legislation has imposed additional restrictions and new policies on firearm and shogun certificate holders nearly every year in the past decade and the pre-firearms period collectors and re-enactors also get caught up in changes to the law from time to time. Blank firers, curved swords, knives, machetes and such have faced additional restrictions with potentially more to come with respect to catapults and crossbows.
In 2021, for example, some firearms that had been exempted from certificate controls as antiques, were clawed back into the licensing system, while recently, Japanese swords with a blade or more than 10 inches or less than 24 inches and with a Tanto point got banned. We keep our membership informed each time new wet paint appears on the barn door.
Why choose Shooters' Rights Association?
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Supporting the shooting community since 1984
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Specialist public liability cover for eligible activities
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Practical firearms licensing and legal guidance
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Support when firearms-related problems arise
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Representation of members' interests
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Dedicated support for shooters and re-enactors
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Regular member news and updates
More than cover on paper
Membership should provide more than insurance alone. We support members when firearms-related problems arise, monitor legislative developments and provide practical guidance to make complex situations easier to understand.
Through Shooters' Rights Association, members can access support for lawful shooting, eligible living history and re-enactment activities, and airsoft skirmishing as a recognised member activity. We also provide regular member updates through the SRA Journal and represent members' interests collectively on issues that affect their lawful activities.
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