EnfieldEnthusiast
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Hello there.A bad start to the new year folks,as yet again,another lunatic in Britain has gone and shot four people dead in a house in the former mining town of Peterlee,County-Durham,North-East England.This occured on New Years day.This guy was a taxi-driver & its been 19 months since the Whitehaven massacre,in which an enraged taxi-driver,Derek Bird shot dead 12 people&injured 11,in Whitehaven,Cumbria in June 2010.
This taxi driver Micheal Atherton,owned 6 guns in total,in which three were shotguns,held on a Section 2 Shotgun License& the other 3 were,presumably rifles,held on a Firearms Certificate.
Now,after personally witnessing over the last 16 years,rapid changes to mainland Britains gun laws,I can see the anti-gun activists&organisations jumping on the bandwagon,to try and get more restrictions&bans in place or opportunistic polititons from Labour in opposition or even from the Coalition,to try and win votes,because lets face it,they make these laws for votes,to appease people.Fortunately there has been no serious negativity in the press,calling for outright gun bans,unlike Dunblane,which saw the banning of centrefire pistols in 1996&rimfires in 1997.
This is the year in which the government will decide if we should have Rimfire handguns,returned to Section 1 status,but it could be a serious setback,like after the whitehaven incident.Its certain to generate a nasty stench from the anti-gun organisations,whom all stink of lies&half-truths.
http://www.metro.co.uk/news/886220-probe-into-how-killer-michael-atherton-held-six-gun-licences
http://www.scotsman.com/news/uk/peterlee_shooting_man_held_gun_licence_1_2033473
This taxi driver Micheal Atherton,owned 6 guns in total,in which three were shotguns,held on a Section 2 Shotgun License& the other 3 were,presumably rifles,held on a Firearms Certificate.
Now,after personally witnessing over the last 16 years,rapid changes to mainland Britains gun laws,I can see the anti-gun activists&organisations jumping on the bandwagon,to try and get more restrictions&bans in place or opportunistic polititons from Labour in opposition or even from the Coalition,to try and win votes,because lets face it,they make these laws for votes,to appease people.Fortunately there has been no serious negativity in the press,calling for outright gun bans,unlike Dunblane,which saw the banning of centrefire pistols in 1996&rimfires in 1997.
This is the year in which the government will decide if we should have Rimfire handguns,returned to Section 1 status,but it could be a serious setback,like after the whitehaven incident.Its certain to generate a nasty stench from the anti-gun organisations,whom all stink of lies&half-truths.
http://www.metro.co.uk/news/886220-probe-into-how-killer-michael-atherton-held-six-gun-licences
http://www.scotsman.com/news/uk/peterlee_shooting_man_held_gun_licence_1_2033473