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Following on from Roger's thread,
should Air weapons be banned or have stricter controls ?
The Scotish parliament are discussing with a view to banning .. what do you think ?
should Air weapons be banned or have stricter controls ?
The Scotish parliament are discussing with a view to banning .. what do you think ?
Airguns could be banned in Scotland if law is devolved
Published Date: 23 November 2009
By Victoria Mitchell
POWERS to ban airguns are expected to be handed over from Westminster to MSPs, it emerged yesterday.
Firearms legislation is currently reserved to Westminster.
But the Scottish Government has argued that Scotland has a distinct problem with air weapons.
It was one of the recommendations of the Calman Commission review of devolution.
Scottish Secretary Jim Murphy is preparing to deliver his response to the Calman report, which made a series of recommendations on which powers should be devolved to Scot-land.
A Scotland Office spokesman said that the UK government would be setting out its re-sponse to Calman "very shortly" and that "air weapons will be dealt with as part of that".
The move has also been called for by the parents of two-year-old Andrew Morton, who died in 2005 after he was hit in the head by an airgun pellet in Easterhouse, Glasgow.
His parents, Sharon McMillan and Andy Morton, have campaigned tirelessly for a change in the law.