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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Rod Minchin

Coroner calls for ‘root and branch’ reform of gun laws after Keyham tragedy

PA Wire

Britain’s gun laws need “root and branch” reform to protect the public, the Government has been warned, in the wake of the Plymouth mass shootings in which five people were shot dead.

Ian Arrow, the senior coroner for Plymouth, said the 50-year-old Firearms Act was at “odds with public safety and the fundamental principle that owning a gun is a privilege and not a right”.

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