A WIDE range of technologies are now available to make firearms safer and restrict their use to authorised owners (Â鶹´«Ã½, 12 July, p 8). Caroline Flint, the Home Office minister with responsibility for firearms policy, expressed great interest when I showed her the news item. However, she emphasised that regulations are far tighter in the UK than in the US.
Flint said that gun controls in the UK are designed to ensure, as far as possible, that people without a licence do not get hold of a firearm. Gun certificates are issued with the proviso that when the…
