Media interviews and comments

My daughter died in the Dunblane shooting in 1996 – here’s why we must keep resisting the gun lobby. Mick North reflects on how grief drove a citizens’ campaign that transformed Britain’s gun laws.   On the morning of 13 March 1996, a man armed with four handguns and ammunition – all legally held – […]

Dr Mick North backs calls for a clampdown following a worrying increase in online adverts for banned handguns.             Kaiya Marjoribanks Daily Record, 26 Feb 2025                 Adverts for banned handguns spark fears as father of Dunblane Tragedy victim hits out Dr Mick […]

Gun Control Network – who warned of ‘Establishment’ connections with firearms lobby – say they are ‘not surprised’ by Therese Coffey’s admission at the Conservative Conference                   PlymouthLive Carl Eve 9 Oct 2023           UK gun control group ‘appalled’ at minister’s firearms boast […]

Mick North speaks with capradio, Sacramento about how other countries reduce mass shootings

Gun rampages can only be averted by ‘root-and-branch’ overhaul of ‘outdated’ licence laws. Professor Peter Squires believes police simply do not have the resources to carry out sufficiently rigorous checks as things stand.     By Ciaran McGrath, Senior News Reporter Express 10:07, Sun, Feb 26, 2023 | UPDATED: 10:07, Sun, Feb 26, 2023 Gun licensing laws must […]

Calls for radical reform of gun laws after Plymouth shooting. ‘Catastrophic’ failings that allowed gunman to kill five people increase pressure to overhaul 1968 legislation. Senior police officers, families of shooting victims and anti-gun campaigners have called for a “radical reform” of the firearms licensing system after an inquest jury found “catastrophic” failings allowed the […]

Nine-year-old Olivia Pratt-Korbel was murdered in her Merseyside home on August 22, 2022, the innocent victim of what has been reported to be a confrontation between two people which had spilled from the streets of Liverpool into her family’s house. The child’s mother was also wounded. In the wake of Pratt-Korbel’s tragic death, news reports […]

Interview of Peter Squires by Danielle Perry on BBC Sussex Radio, 17 August 2022 Danielle Perry: With me now is Peter Squires, Professor of Criminology and Public Policy at the University of Brighton. Good morning, Professor Peter Squires: Good Morning DP: Thank you so much for your time this morning and for your patience, hanging […]

Dunblane victim’s dad calls for stricter gun laws after Skye shooting. A man whose daughter was killed in the Dunblane massacre has called for tighter gun ownership laws in the wake of a fatal shooting on the Isle of Skye. Michael North, whose five-year-old daughter Sophie was one of the 16 pupils killed by Thomas […]

ABC News’ Ines De La Cuetara takes a look at how mass shootings around the world have led to transformative, immediate change to gun laws in three countries and saved lives in the process.