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Political Patronage, PM Flood Pakistan with 400,000 Private Gun Permits
16 January 2010
News International (Karachi), Editorial
What is the point of having firearms legislation if the prime minister and the minister of state for the interior drive a coach and horses through it merely to gratify the wishes of their political cronies?
Since the last week of March 2008 more than 38,800 people have been issued with licences for prohibited bore weapons – Kalashnikovs and Uzis, for instance – mostly on the direct order of these two office-holders.
There has been no police check or any sort of... (GunPolicy.org)