英國5000青少年有持槍證
According to the Daily Mail on December 20, the Home Affairs Select Committee demand changes to firearm laws after exposing how nearly 5,000 children-some as young as ten - are licensed to use guns Monday。
The Home Affairs Select Committee calls for minimum age limits to be imposed on shotgun certificates and wants tighter control over gun owners with criminal records. And they demanded that all children using a gun should be supervised until the age of 15 by someone aged at least 21.
The report found that as of September 7, 2010, a total of 4,899 children under the age of 18 in England and Wales had been issued with either a shotgun certificate or a firearms certificate - mostly used for rifles. These figures do not include low-powered air rifles or air pistols。
Under the current rules no one under the age of 18 can buy or hire shotguns, firearms or ammunition. But there is no age restriction on acquiring a shotgun certificate and anyone can fire a shotgun if they are with the occupier of land, with their gun and in their presence。
據英國《每日郵報》12月20日報道，英國週一被揭露竟然有5000名青少年獲得了持槍證，其中有些是隻有10歲大的兒童後，英國內政事務特別委員會要求修改槍支管理法。
英國內政事務特別委員會呼籲，對持槍者進行最低年齡限制，而且要求對有犯罪記錄的人們進行更嚴格的持槍限制。他們還要求，在15歲之前，所有兒童都必須在年滿21歲的成年人監督下用槍。
報道稱，截至2010年9月7日，英格蘭與威爾士共有4899名不到18歲的青少年擁有獵槍或輕武器許可證，其中大部是手槍。這一數字還不包括低火力的氣槍和氣壓噴槍擁有者。
根據英國現行法律，不到18歲的人不可以購買和租賃槍支彈藥，但獲得獵槍許可證卻沒有年齡限制，在土地所有人在場的情況下，任何人都可以使用獵槍開槍。
