I listened to the BBC report on R4 yesterday evening and I thought for once it was fairly measured in its content, not the ususal rhetoric, the only real inaccuracy was the reference to the Coroner calling for a review of Gun Law when in fact the Coroner was referring to the Licencing system, The BASC corrected that mistake in their response at the time.
The Coroner is right we do need a root and branch review of procedures and UK Firearms legislation, its fragmented and completely out of date, the HASC said the same after their review follwing Bird. The Government are yet to respond to that enquiry.
If the Government were to review the legislation, consolodate it and make it fit for the 21st century perhaps there is an opportunity to correct some of the ill advised and ill conceived amendments that have been made.
Our friends at the Beeb recently referred to a "High Calibre" weapon on local TV news, not familiar with them,
