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Majority of PCCs Supportive of Shooting, says BASC

BASC has published the results of its interactions with Police and Crime Commissioners (PCCs) following last week’s elections. In the run up to the poll, BASC wrote to each of the 40 candidates in England and Wales and set up a platform for members to contact their local candidates to find out where they stood… Read more »

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Additional resources for firearms licensing in Cumbria following BASC meeting

The Chief Constable of Cumbria police has committed additional resources to firearms licensing in the region to cut delays for certificate renewals. BASC’s head of firearms, Martin Parker, met with the Chief Constable of Cumbria Constabulary, Rob Carden, on Monday 29 April to discuss the service delivered by his force to certificate holders in the… Read more »

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Firearms offences fall but fatalities rise to 59
Gun murders rise despite fall in serious crime

More people are being killed as a result of gun crime, despite an overall fall in both homicides and firearms offences, the latest Home Office figures show. Between March 2006 and April 2007 the police recorded 59 fatalities from firearms offences, up from 49 deaths the year before. More than half of all firearms offences… Read more »

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MPs to vote on Derek Conway's fate
Conway suspended as third researcher scrutinised

Disgraced Conservative MP has been suspended from the House of Commons for ten days. MPs have approved the Commons standards and privileges committee’s report into Mr Conway, who was found to have overpaid his son Freddie for work as a parliamentary researcher. The committee recommended the MP for Old Bexley and Sidcup should be suspended… Read more »