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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
National
Rajeev Syal and Steven Morris

Plymouth shooting: families say lives put at risk by delays to gun reform

Suella Braverman
Suella Braverman. The coroner urged her to bring in ‘root and branch reform’. Photograph: Jessica Taylor/UK Parliament/AFP/Getty Images

The families of people killed during a mass shooting in Plymouth have accused the Home Office of putting lives at risk after the department failed to respond to a coroner’s inquiry calling for changes in gun laws.

The home secretary, Suella Braverman, the policing minister, Chris Philp, and chief constables were given until 3 May to respond to a detailed examination of gun laws by the Plymouth senior coroner, Ian Arrow, who had ruled that five people were unlawfully killed by Jake Davison.

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