A legal loophole in the UK’s firearms laws – uncovered by the Sunday Mail – is to be raised at Westminster. MP Alyn Smith, whose constituency covers Dunblane – where 16 primary school kids and their teacher were killed by a gunman in 1996 – will demand Cabinet Ministers take action over practical shooting clubs.
It comes as a Sunday Mail investigation reveals how US-inspired gun clubs don’t fall under Government-approval rules. That is despite members – including those at a Lanarkshire club – using high-powered guns as they move their way around a combat assault course to take out human-shaped targets.
Anyone with a licence for certain types of gun is able to set up a “practical shooting” club on private land without the need for police, government or local authority permission and licensing.
