From: "Richard Loweth", [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I recall seeing him on television at the Conservative Party Conference, when
he did his "stunt" of taking off his jacket being asked about a handgun ban.
He replied that the Government was going to wait for Cullen's Report. The
Conference finished
From: "James McNair", [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I agree with the 'short term opportunists' bit , but would dispute that John
Major made any comment suggesting he was going to ban handguns in the summer
of 1996.
Certainly in August a junior minister made a comment that
a ban of some kind might be
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
James Macnair writes, << The Tories may have been the party that enacted the
ban on handguns , however , do you think that they would have acted that way
had it not been for Labour electioneering on the back of Dunblane ?. They had
their hands forced. >>
This
