Ten-year-olds allowed to

use guns

 

The BBC has discovered that more than 1,000 children under 18 in the East of England hold licences to use a gun.

Anti-gun campaigners want the law changed. At the moment a child aged ten can hold a shotgun licence, and a 14-year-old can hold a firearms licence.

A Gun Control spokesperson

said: “If a gun is in a house people are far more likely to be affected by a gun injury.”

Andrew Clifton, of Sporting Targets Shooting Club, said: “We are a recreation and we support youngsters to do it in a controlled and disciplined manner.”

 

Ten-year-olds allowed to

use guns

The BBC has discovered that more than 1,000 children under 18 in the East of England hold licences to use a gun.

Anti-gun campaigners want the law changed. At the moment a child aged ten can hold a shotgun licence, and a 14-year-old can hold a firearms licence.

A Gun Control spokesperson 

said: “If a gun is in a house people are far more likely to be affected by a gun injury.”

Andrew Clifton, of Sporting Targets Shooting Club, said: “We are a recreation and we support youngsters to do it in a controlled and disciplined manner.”The BBC has discovered thatThe The BBC

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