More British Gun Rules Backed
LONDON (AP) -- A cross-party committee of lawmakers recommended Thursday that Britain further tighten its gun laws to make airguns subject to the same restrictions as other weapons and prohibit children under 14 from handling all firearms.
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Britain has some of the strictest gun laws in the world. Handguns were banned after a gunman shot and killed 16 kindergarten children and their teacher in Dunblane, Scotland,in 1996.
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An estimated 4 million airguns are in circulation around Britain, accounting for 70 percent of the firearms held legally, the report said.
Figures for 1998-99 showed that nearly two-thirds of all recorded firearms offenses were linked to air weapons, according to the report. Most of those offenses involved
criminal damage, but nearly 2,000 also involved injuries to people, it said.
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But John Hoare, secretary of the National Small Bore Rifle Association, said the proposed regulations will hit ''those who
are law-abiding and cause no mischief, damage or injury to anyone.''
''They will not affect criminals,'' he said.
The recommendations also failed to please the antigun lobby. The Gun Control Network criticized the report as not going far enough, saying it would ''do little to discourage future generations of shooters.''
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Yes, for the sake of the Crown, let's do all we can to "discourage future generations of shooters." Bloody Bahstards.
LONDON (AP) -- A cross-party committee of lawmakers recommended Thursday that Britain further tighten its gun laws to make airguns subject to the same restrictions as other weapons and prohibit children under 14 from handling all firearms.
....
Britain has some of the strictest gun laws in the world. Handguns were banned after a gunman shot and killed 16 kindergarten children and their teacher in Dunblane, Scotland,in 1996.
....
An estimated 4 million airguns are in circulation around Britain, accounting for 70 percent of the firearms held legally, the report said.
Figures for 1998-99 showed that nearly two-thirds of all recorded firearms offenses were linked to air weapons, according to the report. Most of those offenses involved
criminal damage, but nearly 2,000 also involved injuries to people, it said.
....
But John Hoare, secretary of the National Small Bore Rifle Association, said the proposed regulations will hit ''those who
are law-abiding and cause no mischief, damage or injury to anyone.''
''They will not affect criminals,'' he said.
The recommendations also failed to please the antigun lobby. The Gun Control Network criticized the report as not going far enough, saying it would ''do little to discourage future generations of shooters.''
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Yes, for the sake of the Crown, let's do all we can to "discourage future generations of shooters." Bloody Bahstards.