Take action! Lobby your MP
Jan 13, 18:47
The Home Secretary Jacqui Smith wants to tighten up the law regarding pre-1995 deactivated guns. This represents a potential threat to genuine, law-abiding collectors who have spent years and not insubstantial amounts of money building their collections.
If you want your voice to be heard contact your local MP by email. Their job is to represent their constituents interests. If they don’t know the strength of feeling they cannot fight your corner.
Make sure your MP is aware that the government’s own statistics show that deactivated weapons account for only 0.04% of gun crime. That’s 8 out of 21,521! Of these 8 crimes only 4 involved re-activated weapons.
How to find your MP
Find your MP using theyworkforyou.com. This site will allow you to enter your postcode and will bring up your local MP’s name and ways of contacting him/her. Also contact the home secretary and the shadow Home secretary:
David Davis – Shadow Home Secretary
Papering over the cracks
Quote from David Davis taken from the The Telegraph:
Mr Davis said: “While we welcome any action, however overdue it may be, to tackle the scourge of gun crime the Government’s own figures show that in 2005/06 there were only eight incidents where deactivated or reactivated weapons were used – just 0.04 per cent of gun offences.
“We need sustained action to tackle the other 99.6 per cent of this serious problem, bearing in mind that gun violence has increased four-fold over the last 10 years.”
He added: “The Home Secretary should realise that the public want a rigorous, long-term and holistic approach to the scourge of gun-crime, not ad-hoc announcements which will do little more than paper over the cracks.”
Take action!
It is important that you let your MP know how you feel about this matter. The more people that bring this to their attention, the more likely something will be done about it.
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