Part of Scotland Bill – in the House of Lords at 12:45 pm on 28 March 2012.
My Lords, perhaps this would be an opportunity for me to refer to the anomaly-some would call it the absurdity-of the present requirement for a sound moderator, or silencer, to be treated as a separate weapon and be separately registered on a firearms certificate. After all, the silencer is only a tin can which is screwed on the end of the rifle. When the Government are looking into this area in collaboration with the Scottish Government, I suggest that this would be an opportunity to remove that requirement.