Clause 26 - Age limits for purchase etc. of air weapons
Violent Crime Reduction Bill
3:45 pm
Stewart Hosie (Dundee East, Scottish National Party)
I am listening carefully to what is being said and trying to work out what argument is coming next. Is the hon. Gentleman not concerned that in the last full year for which I have figures, in England there were 13,700 air weapon crimes and in Scotland there were 415, twice the number of crimes that involved real firearms. Is the hon. Gentleman not deeply concerned about the scale of the problem? There seems to be a little complacency in what he is saying—although of course I will listen to the rest of his argument.