Gun Policy News
4 January 2001
Guardian (UK)
Downing Street last night slapped down the outspoken sports minister Kate Hoey after she attacked the ban on handguns introduced after the Dunblane massacre.
A spokeswoman stressed Ms Hoey's views, which drew immediate condemnation from anti-gun campaigners, were not shared by the prime minister and were a clear breach of laws banning all handguns introduced in 1997.
The careful distancing from the junior minister's views came after the maverick MP for Vauxhall told a... (GunPolicy.org)