Crime: Firearms Debate

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Department: Home Office

Crime: Firearms

Earl Attlee Excerpts
Thursday 9th February 2017

(7 years, 10 months ago)

Lords Chamber
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Baroness Williams of Trafford Portrait Baroness Williams of Trafford
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My noble friend is absolutely right that amnesties have been used in the past—most recently in Northern Ireland, if I am not mistaken—and that great care needs to be taken around such an approach.

Earl Attlee Portrait Earl Attlee (Con)
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My Lords, of the 800 seized firearms referred to by the noble Lord on the Labour Benches—

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Lord Harris of Haringey.

Earl Attlee Portrait Earl Attlee
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It is my great friend the noble Lord, Lord Harris of Haringey. How many of those firearms were seized from one registered firearms dealer?

Baroness Williams of Trafford Portrait Baroness Williams of Trafford
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I have all sorts of facts and figures but I do not have that one, so I will write to my noble friend on that point.