merseymouth wrote: ↑17 Aug 2021, 8:48am
Morning, A full overhaul of the possession & licencing of firearms & shotguns will invariably be a rocky and difficult road!
The volume of such weapons is very difficult to quantify, with a countless number of inherited weapons, so who knows where the things will be and just as scary who will next get hands on them?
I think I read it way back that a large number of such get filched in burglaries, maybe more than on record due to reluctance on the part of the victim to admit to having had it in the first place?
So we're on the back foot from the outset!
One thing must be put in place which I've already been told is not workable, that is that the Registration & Licencing process must record all weapons held! I believe that it is just so with regards to rifles & hand-guns, but surely it should be possible for shotguns?
If cost is an element which impedes it, well tough, the one who wants the weapon must pay.
But I'm told shotguns are essential for controlling vermin, well one of the worst vermin which plagues society in the human one! So human variant must not be free to have access to what quickly become offensive weapons.
I accept that the majority of people who use shotguns in a purely professional basis are doing it properly, but even among forum posters we get told of some of the careless type! The job of ensuring we have a society which is safe for all should not be left in the hands of folk such as our version of the NRA.
We make efforts to control the most popular offensive weapon, the motor-vehicle, with proper training and control, but even then we see numerous instances of carnage! The weapons access must be taken into proper control. MM
Please excuse the excessive underlining, beyond my skill set.