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Petition update, 20 February 2009

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We call upon the Government to scrap plans to introduce legislation banning deactivated firearms. Not only are these historic items, but the Home Office's own experts have stated that a ban would be unnecessary, unfair and unproductive, and that the solution is to address the social root-causes of gun crime. The Home Office's own statistics show that reactivated firearms of the type to which the proposed ban would apply (pre-95 deactivation) were used in only 4 out of 11,084 offences (0.03%). Live handguns are already banned, the act of reactivating a deactivated firearm is already banned, and acquiring live replacement parts to reactivate a deactivated gun (namely the barrel, breechblock and firing pin) are already banned. Anyone who has access to these (illegal) components has already gained access to all of the parts necessary to make a live firearm. The only people the proposed ban on deactivated firearms would penalise are genuine collectors and historical re-enactors who have no intention of breaking the law.

Current signatories

Simon Buckley, the Petition Creator, joined by:

• G.WILKINS
• richard whiteside
• Benjamin Lowery
• Max Caldicott
• alan smith
• Lee Mansworth
• Neil Plucknett
• Robert Davey
• Val Plucknett
• Tanya Plucknett
• Mark Palmer
• david ives
• Matteo Iannizzotto
• Ian Bridge
• Chris jenkins
• Dean Prieto
• kevin say
• John Tower
• David Main
• cblair
• mike stevens
• steve jones
• m flynn
• George Foster
• Stephen Weston
• David May
• JOSH SAPSFORD
• Ivan
• ROBERT YOUNG
• j rrafford
• Grant Broadhurst
• James William Newton
• David Ellis
• michael passmore
• Gareth L. Sprack
• Sarah Phillips
• Lawrence Taylor
• Max Farran
• Owen David Powell
• john s green
• Michael Chapman
• Jonathan Prince
• malcolm mcmillan
• Debbie Main
• NICK WALSH
• Jordan Toovey
• Richard Fleming
• Richard Fisher
• Stephen Cobden
• Matthew Alfrey
• A. Lingard
• PToner
• Sam Wilson
• David Griffiths
• Simon Freeman
• R.PILBEAM
• Francis Lovell
• Charles Unwin
• Brian Gallimore
• J Piper
• karl joynes
• R. Nicholson
• Neil Ashley
• brian pullen
• Geoff Carefoot
• SCOTT KNOWLES
• Leigh Boys
• Simon Tierney
• A. T. May
• Ian Cowling
• Christopher Old
• kev bonney
• Phil Squires
• Raymond Barrett
• Clive Palmer
• Paul Harris
• Frank Elliott
• Esther Barrett
• william hamper
• Jeremy williams
• Steve Williams
• James West
• Tim Cockayne
• Steven Fairbank
• Robert Jordan
• Duncan Aran
• B.Dugamatov
• Andrew Grimley
• WAYNE ROFF
• C C Broadbridge
• James
• Stewart Marchington
• David George Main
• Nicholas McIntyre
• James F.Anderson-Compton-Shedd
• John Tremelling
• paul stirling
• Matthew Dunford
• Oliver Gee
• Corin J. Watts
• John Goodman
• Stephen MacHaye
• Martin Hanchett
• Terence Muldon
• jim speed
• Hermina Williams
• Paul Marvin
• Greg Smith
• WILLIAM EVES
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• Michael Shilton
• alex king
• James Walker
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• Stewart Doeblin
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• Mark Aldridge
• Gary Kennaway
• Richard Rowe
• d woodcock
• Malcolm McDowall
• Andrea J Chee
• Peter J Williams
• David Voisey
• Peter Jenkins
• Gary Watson
• Marco de Innocentis
• r hawkins
• Simon Roberts
• Neil Stutely
• Gareth Jones
• David A Mote
• J.R. Higgs
• Graham Braund
• Andrew Yates
• Lester hatch
• Adrian Littlejohns
• dougal Chestnutt
• Luke Geach
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• S Bell
• kirk farndale
• John Parks
• Chris Tennet
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• michael wilson
• Colin Dichler
• Neil Young
• Stuart Andrews
• david allaway
• S. Mason
• nigel stevenson
• Paul Costin
• Brian Goree
• Mr M K Mills
• Glen O'Sullivan
• James Brown
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• Marc Newell
• Mike Springall
• Alan David Farnfield
• J.Wyatt
• Robert Parton
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• Steve Littlejohn
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• nick bunsell
• Bryan Legate
• David Giles-Probert
• daniel reoch
• Barrie Denman
• Jamey Baines
• Neil Wishart
• Stephen Jennings
• mike wring
• Stephen Charles Baker
• David Briggs
• gavin ware
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• robert macdonald
• Tony Cattermole
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• gary gilfrin
• Tim Lees
• Rex George Ward
• Amanda Ware
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• Ian Agg
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• Lance Dale
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• Keith Slater
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• steven thompson
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