Examination of Witnesses Offensive Weapons Bill – on 17th July

Gregg tayor quote ( there is a lack of control and legislation around purchasing and acquiring ammunition components )

vicky foxcroft reply so your feedback is that it might be useful to extend the bill to cover all ammunition and other parts and components .

not again '''
 
Gregg tayor quote ( there is a lack of control and legislation around purchasing and acquiring ammunition components )

vicky foxcroft reply so your feedback is that it might be useful to extend the bill to cover all ammunition and other parts and components .

not again '''

I too noted that lightbulb coming on moment by Vicky Foxcroft, or was it more of a fly being taken by a trout moment.

Stand by it looks like reloading is once more on their agenda.:-|
 
I too noted that lightbulb coming on moment by Vicky Foxcroft, or was it more of a fly being taken by a trout moment.

Stand by it looks like reloading is once more on their agenda.:-|


oh well another bunch of talking, another lunch.
 
[FONT=&quot]In one of her last actions as home secretary, Amber Rudd launched a serious violence strategy to clamp down on violent crime, which has been rising since 2014. The strategy is to be backed by £40m of Home Office funding and an offensive weapons bill to ban the sale of corrosive liquids to under-18s and introduce tougher restrictions on buying knives online. The strategy will focus on the links between drug trade, particularly for crack cocaine, and violent crime.[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]The strategy was launched amid controversy over the potential link between dwindling police numbers and the rise in violence.[/FONT]
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[FONT=&quot][FONT=&quot]doesn't seem to focusing on it recently, more on legally owned firearms and their owners.:cuckoo:[/FONT][/FONT]
 
We often hear the mantra about reduction in police officers on the streets... while admittedly the presence of bobbies on the beat does serve the purpose of reassuring the public, I believe that crime rates are actually linked more closely to conviction rates, or in other words to the probability of getting caught and convicted.

Criminals take advantage of the fact that the police do not have sufficient resources to properly investigate petty crime such as theft from vehicle, burglaries, street mugging, low-level drug dealing, and recently also fraud and cyber crime (only fraud complaints where £100,000 or over were taken actually get investigated by police, lower amounts are not even flagged-up by ActionFraud for investigation).

This means that criminals know which crimes they can commit with near-impunity.

The way to prevent crimes involving firearms (real or imitation) is to my mind more detection and higher conviction rates.

If criminals knew that the chances of actually being caught when committing a violence offence involving a firearm are very high, most would think twice.

This is not the same as thougher punishments - because if criminals don't believe they'll actually get caught, the punishment is no deterrent.

But in order to achieve this, police need to prioritise the allocation of their CID resources (and not just officers on the beat).

They need to have more detectives... and ask themselves if the resource-intensive and fruitless investigations into historic allegations against Lord Bramall, Lord Brittan, Harvey Proctor, Sir Cliff Richard, Edward Heath and others were best use of the detectives available to them.
 
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