Gun Policy News
30 January 2002
BBC News
An advertisement with similarities to the case of farmer Tony Martin, who is serving a prison sentence after shooting two burglars, has been criticised by the industry watchdog.
The advert, for a security system, appeared in Countryside magazine, showing a farmer holding a shotgun.
The drawing has the farmer smiling and giving a thumbs-up sign with the shotgun still smoking and cartridges in mid-ejection.
A member of the public who complained said it was... (GunPolicy.org)