Clause 28 - Restriction on sale and purchase of primers
Violent Crime Reduction Bill
11:15 am
John Thurso (Shadow Secretary of State for Scotland (And Transport), Scotland; Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross, Liberal Democrat)
I am grateful to the hon. Gentleman for having raised the matter—it sounds moderately sensible—and I look forward to hearing what the Minister has to say.
It is clearly the Government's intention to ensure that persons who are not in any of the categories listed should not be in a position to acquire a primer. Can the Minister clarify whether somebody who is a firearms certificate holder and who reloads ammunition will be able to go on purchasing primers? Further, will those who do not hold firearms certificates, but who have shotgun certificates and load their own ammunition, be able to purchase primers, or does the absence from the list of the shotgun certificate mean that they are excluded?