![]() Our experience in Plymouth is the opposite of that, that the rules have to be brought into the twenty-first century. He said: "The gun lobby is arguing that the current rules around shooting and guns are okay, that everything is fine and that there is no need to change them. ![]() He said the Home Office is considering responses to the consultation and will make an announcement in due course.Īfterwards Mr Pollard said there was a determined effort from the gun lobby to keep the status quo. ![]() Police at Biddick Drive following Keyham shooting on evening of Aug(Image: Carl Eve/PlymouthLive) He said people were not given firearms without their medical details being checked and better checks were carried out when applications for firearms were made including social media checks. Rishi Sunak, who said his thoughts were with the families of the people who were killed, said information-sharing between GPs and the police had improved and the application process tightened up. "So, will the Prime Minister bow down to lobbyists from the shooting industry or will he stand with grieving families and Plymouth to prevent a tragedy like ours from ever happening again – with stronger gun laws?" "The government has finally consulted on firearms reforms, but after pressure from shooting groups, even these sensible reforms could be watered down. Speaking during prime minister’s questions this week, Mr Pollard said: "Two years ago in Plymouth, we lost five people in Britain’s worst mass shooting in a decade. The group also predicted the Government would try and side-step taking action by calling for a public consultation, safe in the knowledge that thousands of members of groups like the Countryside Alliance and the British Association of Shooting and Conservation would 'hijack' the consultation with calls to ignore the coroner's recommendations. MP Luke Pollard pictured after the shooting in Keyham as he paid his condolences (Image: Matt Gilley/PlymouthLive)Įarlier this year PlymouthLive reported on how the Gun Control Network - created in the wake of the Dunblane massacre - warned that the government would be influenced by the powerful gun lobby who would use its large membership to water down any of Mr Arrow's recommendations. ![]() Read next: Plymouth shooting: Nation at 'another crossroads' after innocent people killedĪ jury found ‘a catastrophic failure’ by Devon and Cornwall police in allowing Jake Davison, who had a history of violent outbursts, to have a gun which had contributed to the deaths of Davison's mother Maxine, Lee Martyn, Sophie Martyn, Stephen Washington and Kate Shepherd. The government announced it would hold a public consultation after it said it would not take on board all of the recommendations made by Plymouth's senior coroner Ian Arrow following the conclusion of the five-week inquest held earlier this years into the horrific shootings on August 12, 2021. Mr Pollard called for a quick government response to its firearms reform consultation before, he says, a general election is called and the issue is put in the "difficult box." Plymouth Sutton and Devonport MP Luke Pollard spoke in Parliament earlier this week where he urged Richi Sunak to "stand with grieving families" and implement stronger gun laws as soon as possible to prevent another tragedy. The Prime Minister should not "bow down" to pressure from the gun lobby over recommendations put forward by the Plymouth coroner in the wake of the inquests into the deaths of five people in Keyham in August 2021, Plymouth's MP has said.
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