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<blockquote data-quote="Babagounj" data-source="post: 802169" data-attributes="member: 12952">news story from 2005;<a href="http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crime/up-to-4m-guns-in-uk-and-police-are-losing-the-battle-505487.html" target="_blank">http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crime/up-to-4m-guns-in-uk-and-police-are-losing-the-battle-505487.html</a>&nbsp;Most gun crime in Britain involves&nbsp; handguns, usually converted blank-firing guns and, to a lesser extent,&nbsp; shotguns.After many years of campaigning by the&nbsp; gun control lobby, a ban finally came into force in May 2004, making it&nbsp; illegal to own a blank-firing replica gun without a firearms licence.&nbsp; Before the ban, NCIS had repeatedly warned that more than half the&nbsp; illegally converted guns seized in Britain by police officers were&nbsp; Brococks, legal until the ban. The Brocock replica handgun has a feature&nbsp; very useful to criminals: the gas-fired pistol can be converted into a&nbsp; real gun by any dodgy backstreet gunsmith.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Babagounj, post: 802169, member: 12952"] news story from 2005; [url]http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crime/up-to-4m-guns-in-uk-and-police-are-losing-the-battle-505487.html[/url] Most gun crime in Britain involves handguns, usually converted blank-firing guns and, to a lesser extent, shotguns. After many years of campaigning by the gun control lobby, a ban finally came into force in May 2004, making it illegal to own a blank-firing replica gun without a firearms licence. Before the ban, NCIS had repeatedly warned that more than half the illegally converted guns seized in Britain by police officers were Brococks, legal until the ban. The Brocock replica handgun has a feature very useful to criminals: the gas-fired pistol can be converted into a real gun by any dodgy backstreet gunsmith. [/QUOTE]

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