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Originally Posted by Ernie
With respect, I think a lot of people forget that a few years ago Joe Public used to be permitted to own a handgun in this country, and but for some nutter in Hungerford and Dunblane going berserk where sadly a lot of people lost their lives which in itself was a dreadful consequence, but the law was passed that owning a handgun was illegal by the do gooders and a lot of law abiding people lost a perfectly good hobby and this action has done nothing to reduce gun crime in this country, in fact it was almost never heard of that a robbery or gang shooting being done with a legally registered firearm, there was the same black market in illegal firearms as there is today.
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there has always been a blackmarket in illegal firearms ernie,as you say,the Big differance now is you can pick them up in most small towns like accy,not just the big citys,also they are much more available these days.i am not against gun clubs and the like. i am against any local yob CARRYING firearms Whatever age they happen to be.and think the government is stupid restricting the age of the sentence.