A shooting activist says he has lost his firearms licences after his YouTube videos advocating gun rights became a 'forum for extremism.'

Callum Long Collins, who runs the English Shooting YouTube channel, confirmed that the police are not going to reinstate his licences after they were revoked in 2016.

Mr Long-Collins, 28, from Fareham, Hampshire, said the police took action after he called for the French to be able to use handguns for self defence in the wake of the 2015 Paris terror attacks.

The clip, titled: 'Paris Attacks: Time for Self Defence' which has now been deleted, was one of a number attracting comments which the police said were 'promoting views that were not in line with legal firearms ownership in the UK.'

Callum Long Collins (pictured) who runs the English Shooting YouTube channel, confirmed that the police are not going to reinstate his licences after they were revoked in 2016.

Mr Long-Collins (pictured) said the police took action after he called for the French to be able to use handguns for self defence in the wake of the 2015 Paris terror attacks

Mr Long-Collins runs the English Shooting YouTube channel, which reviews legal firearms and promotes the sport of 'practical shooting.'

According to The Times, in a message to his 17,000 YouTube subscribers, Mr Long-Collins said: 'I was told that due to repeated comments from other people on the videos, [the police] felt that the channel was a forum of extremism and it was promoting views that were not in line with legal firearms ownership in the UK.'

He told the paper: 'The main issue was a video that I made around the Paris attacks where I advocated the French to be able to use handguns for self-defence because of the frequency of attacks that were happening at the time.'

Mr Long-Collins lost an appeal against the decision to revoke his gun licences in 2016 at Portsmouth crown court.

Mr Long Collins (pictured in an image on his Facebook page) said in a BBC interview in 2016 that it felt 'illegal' in the UK to have any sort of opinion on gun rights and using guns for self defence

He has been told by police recently that they are unlikely to reinstate the licences in the near future, The Times reports.

In a BBC interview in 2016 Mr Long Collins said it felt 'illegal' in the UK to have any sort of opinion on gun rights and using guns for self defence.

Mr Long-Collins told the times that police had reviewed his licences over 'a false allegation of assault.'

But he said they then became concerned about his social media output.

Mr Long Collins, pictured on a shooting range, said police took action after they became concerned about the 'social media output'

Mr Long-Collins said that he wanted to 'open up the conversation'.

Tony Hill, the head of firearms licensing at Hampshire police, said that when certificates were revoked it was 'because we have real concerns that public safety could be at risk.'