Gun control and ownership laws in the UK By Dominic Casciani BBC News home affairs correspondent
Derrick Bird, who shot dead 12 people in Cumbria, held a firearms licence for 20 years, it has emerged. Cumbria Police said the taxi driver had a shotgun certificate and a firearms licence for weapons, and he is understood to have been a licensed firearms holder since the age of 32. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/england/10220974.stm After the sensationalism, the article settles down into a discussion of British firearms laws and gives some numbers on ownership, recent criminal use, etc.. -- Charles Curley /"\ ASCII Ribbon Campaign Looking for fine software \ / Respect for open standards and/or writing? X No HTML/RTF in email http://www.charlescurley.com / \ No M$ Word docs in email Key fingerprint = CE5C 6645 A45A 64E4 94C0 809C FFF6 4C48 4ECD DFDB _______________________________________________ To post, send message to [email protected] To subscribe, unsubscribe, change options, or get password, see http://lists.ucla.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/firearmsregprof Please note that messages sent to this large list cannot be viewed as private. Anyone can subscribe to the list and read messages that are posted; people can read the Web archives; and list members can (rightly or wrongly) forward the messages to others.
