Gun Policy News
Airgun Killings, Injury Move Scotland Towards Total Ban on Pellet Guns
26 June 2009
Scotsman (Edinburgh), Opinion
When two-year-old Andrew Morton was killed four years ago after being shot with an airgun, there were widespread demands for a crackdown on the deadly weapons.
Andrew was being carried by his 13-year-old brother in Glasgow's Easterhouse estate when he was hit by a pellet in the head. An unemployed 27-year-old man, who had been taking pot shots from the window of his flat, was later sentenced to life imprisonment for murder.
Andrew's parents collected 11,000 signatures... (GunPolicy.org)