Based in the Surrey area of England. Magna Gun Club has approximately 25 members. The club uses Bisley Ranges predominantly but has a long-standing association with British Airways shooting club and is often invited to shoot at their range.

Magna maintains a very high standard in safety and training. The club has serving Police Officers who are / were liable to carry firearms in the course of their duty, and as such are competent trainers in basic, intermediate and advanced shooting skills.

Safety always remains the primary concern when training any new member. Before the current changes to the law, Magna had introduced the procedure for one to one intensive training for any novice. Novices are not permitted to shoot unless a long serving member supervises them when on the firing point. To prove the quality of training, most members are able and willing to act as Range Officers and take charge of courses of fire and safety procedures.   At least 4 of the current committee are qualified NRA Range Officers.

Although strict in its policy of safe handling and correct range etiquette Magna has always been and remains a "social" club. All members know each other and maintain good relations within the club. We have also been invited to participate with other clubs in inter-club competitions as well as shooting with some of the more renown military personnel; namely the "Ghurkas".

The club has been through phases in its history, although pistol shooting has been at the forefront of the clubs activities, the club ran a Practical Shotgun shoot once a month for 4 years. The land that was rented became a focus of attention from the local council because other clubs were using it the remaining weekends and the local neighbours started to complain. The club also had an old camouflaged caravan we used for storage (targets, scoreboard and barbeque equipment) that the council complained about. The pressure to limit our activities became intolerable so we reluctantly gave up, plus the Hungerford shooting tragedy removed high capacity pump and semi-auto shotguns from shotgun to section 1 firearm certificates and that was the death knell for the practical shotgun section.

But the club carries on in much the same way as always. Good natured and ready to try something more competitive. Currently the club is running courses of fire with pistol calibered and full bore rifles, black powder pistols and clay pigeon shoots.

A delegation from the club was invited to attend the "Second Chance Invitation Shoot 98". We were supposed to number four but one of the party got lost so we had to be content with three. Still it was all the more ammunition for us. The guys we met at the shoot were great. They let us borrow all manner of fully automatic firearms and they wouldn't take any money for the ammunition so we had to buy them lots of beer to make up for their generosity (after shooting that is).