Technical problems have once again delayed the national firearms register, nine years after it was first proposed (Computing, 27 July). The National Firearms Licensing Management System (NFLMS) is intended to provide a searchable, national register of all firearms certificate holders. But trials of the troubled system were suspended at the end of last year when they encountered data quality problems. Now the Police IT Organisation (Pito) hopes to start installing... (GunPolicy.org)