Home Office Firearms Consultation

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All of these consultations share the same basic goal: a United Kingdom in which fewer people own firearms. The recent Offensive Weapons Act 2019 simply ban certain types of firearms outright. This so-called 'Firearms Safety' consultation will place obstacles in the path of owning firearms or ammunition to make them more difficult and expensive to obtain, thereby shrinking the market for them. The fundamental flaw of these approaches is that they treat all law-abiding firearm owners as would-be criminals, when the reality is that most firearm-related assaults and murders are committed by people who completely disregard the law, including laws against taking human life.