I thank my hon. Friend for giving way; he is being extremely generous. I would ask him to consider this scenario, which happened in my local shooting club. Somebody who was clearly quite troubled was able to book up all the shooting lanes and then held up the shooting range official, took the guns and murdered two women a mile away from my constituency border. My hon. Friend talks about the illegal versus the legal and about the risk being minimal, but when things go wrong, even in minimal-risk circumstances, it can have devastating impacts. That is why I find myself a little hesitant about what is now being changed.
Offensive Weapons Bill
Proceeding contribution from
Huw Merriman
(Conservative)
in the House of Commons on Wednesday, 28 November 2018.
It occurred during Debate on bills
and
Legislative Grand Committee proceedings (HC) on Offensive Weapons Bill.
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