Campaigners who successfully pushed for a ban on handguns in the wake of the Dunblane massacre endured death threats and bomb scares, the chairwoman of the Gun Control Network (GCN) has revealed. The harrowing resistance highlights the intense battle fought to secure stricter gun laws in Britain.
The morning of 13 March, 1996 saw Thomas Hamilton enter Dunblane Primary School’s gymnasium armed with four legally-owned handguns and hundreds of rounds of ammunition. Within minutes, 16 pupils and a teacher were shot dead, and 15 others injured, in what remains the deadliest mass shooting in British history.
