"Paul Sengupta" wrote in message
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"Thomas J. Paladino Jr." wrote in message
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It really
seems to have worked like a charm in the UK where soon after banning
firearms alltogether, gun related crimes went sky-high.

I don't know why people from the US persist in this belief.

I refer to my posts
http://makeashorterlink.com/?L22C42007
and
http://makeashorterlink.com/?I3AC21007
and
http://makeashorterlink.com/?E6EB52007

Gun crime has risen sharply over the past couple of years. Nothing
to do with banning handguns as people have never kept handguns
for protection like in the US. Gun club members could keep them
at home (locked away), after 1997 they can't, they have to keep
them locked at the club. In either case, these were for competition
use only, and as such, licenses were only given for such use.



Even gun clubs have been shut down. In the south of England some people
chose to take their guns to France and keep them there for sporting use
only.

The new rules made it difficult for our Olympic shooting team who now train
abroad.