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15 January 2001

Independent (UK)

When police arrived to investigate reports of a shooting at the Essentials nightclub in south London last November they noticed that a number of the patrons trying to leave the building were wearing bullet-proof vests. As a 21-year-old man was taken to hospital for treatment to a bullet wound to his head, officers discovered seven abandoned handguns left in and around the club. The shocking incident is just one indication of the increasing criminal use of firearms,... (GunPolicy.org)

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