Late-abase!
Home Office incompetence was highlighted in the Commons last week when MP Ann Cryer called for a debate on the progress of the national firearms database.
This was introduced after the Dunblane massacre. The proposal was to implement a register of all firearms holders in the UK. Ten years have passed, and this has still not been done. If the government cannot produce a small register of this nature, how can they hope to achieve such an enormous project as the National Identity Register?
March 10th, 2006 at 18:31
Other factors are relevant here.. I am a Firearms Certificate holder and strongly support the introduction of a national database, I feel that it would assist in identifying stolen guns etc. which are subsequently used in crime. However, for it to be of any value it would have to list all guns kept by the police and various other state bodies (I’m sure I don’t have to specify them.)For some inexplicable reason there has been resistance to this idea at a high level. Maybe it’s because it would also have to list all the concealed handguns carried (with absolute legal immunity) by Europol officers operating on British soil.