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Killings Rise as 3m Illegal Guns Flood Britain
16 January 2000
Sunday Times (UK)
Up to 3 million illegal guns are in circulation in Britain, leading to a rise in drive-by shootings and gangland-style executions, new figures have revealed.
Police are concerned that the amnesty after the massacre of schoolchildren in Dunblane in 1996, which led to 200,000 weapons being handed in, has failed to dent the underworld's supply of pistols and revolvers.
Criminals have maintained a steady flow of smuggled guns from eastern Europe, exhibition weapons... (GunPolicy.org)