Ministers will not back calls for stricter controls on shotguns following the Plymouth mass shootings.
Home Office minister Chris Philp said the Government would launch a consultation into firearms licensing following the killings in Keyham, Plymouth in 2021, but stopped short of accepting a coroner’s calls for gun law reform.
Ian Arrow, senior coroner for Plymouth and South Devon, had 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”.
