Every night, across rural Ireland, an unknown number (potentially thousands, I suspect) go through an extraordinary ritual before they go to bed. They unlock their steel gun cabinets - these are a legal requirement for holders of the 230,000 legally-held weapons in homes - and remove a shotgun and cartridges from it and bring them up to their bedroom.
The shotgun and cartridges are then placed within easy reach before the gun-owner gets into bed to...
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