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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

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Gun rampages can only be averted by ‘root-and-branch’ overhaul of ‘outdated’ licence laws.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.

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.

Two weeks ago, a gunman attacked an elementary school in Uvalde, Texas, killing 19 children and two teachers. Since then, there have been at least 33 more mass shootings, according to the Gun Violence Archive. They define a mass shooting as an event in which four or more people are shot or killed. Mass shootings […]

Insights on Uvalde from an activist who worked to make the U.K. safer. NPR’s Ari Shapiro talks with Mick North, founding member of Gun Control Network and the father of one of the children killed at Dunblane Primary School in Scotland.