From:   Jeremy Peter Howells, [EMAIL PROTECTED]

I think we're right to be cautious but the Home Office
realised that the data held by police forces on the
number and types of guns in circulation was suspect at
the time of the 1997 Acts.  And the Home Office realised it!

The central database needs some sort of data to match
the guns against and the current police records just
are not capable of doing that with any reliability.

Your into statistics, if the data is suspect then any
trends you glean from it must be suspect.

There may be a fuss about 'long barreled revolvers
circumventing the intention of Parliament' but in
reality they are legal by the letter of the law as
it stands and just how many of them are there
anyway?  Not that many that's for sure.

Th eHome Office can't really come up with any
meaningful reason to ban lon barreled revolvers
unless they have some data.  Unless the politicians
decide to twist some facts to suit themselves.

Regards

Jerry


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