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Mike

Joined: 29 Jun 2006 Posts: 86 Location: North West England
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Posted: Tue Mar 03, 2009 11:19 am Post subject: Government consultation on de-acts |
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I should have posted this here first, I suppose - so -
The Home Office has published a consultation document about de-acts - you might want to look at
http://psa.bizhosting.com/whats_new.html
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Mike

Joined: 29 Jun 2006 Posts: 86 Location: North West England
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Posted: Thu Jun 18, 2009 10:53 am Post subject: |
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Now that Jackie Smith's gone, I wonder if this consultation will go the way of the last one on firearms law - into the long grass - as the new Home Secretary will have different priorities?
The consultation closed on 25th May, so I suppose it's too early to expect a full response yet but perhaps this will be another "initiative" which will be allowed to die quietly? After all, there was little or no evidence of a problem - and this was admitted in the preface. |
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cybershooters Site Admin

Joined: 17 Jun 2006 Posts: 4613
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Posted: Fri Jun 19, 2009 4:11 am Post subject: |
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Yes I posed that question in the political forum the other day, I think it's dead personally. Frankly I thought it was utterly pointless anyway because there is no germane legislation likely to go through Parliament before the General Election and the reforms they're proposing are too trivial to be bothering with a standalone Bill.
But now she's left and the Govt. is in total meltdown I just can't see it happening. Look what happened to the firearms consultation when Blunkett left.
I have to say whenever the subject comes up it just sounds so utterly absurd - the Govt. is thinking of banning the manufacture, import and sale of something that hasn't been legal to import or manufacture since 1995.
By definition the arguments put forward by the police since then have been proven to be false.
Just be glad most of what's in that paper would require primary legislation. _________________ Steve.
Only three things are certain: death, taxes and stupid gun laws. |
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dpyper
Joined: 01 Jan 2011 Posts: 4
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cybershooters Site Admin

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Posted: Sun Jan 02, 2011 1:58 am Post subject: |
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It's not the HO, the HAC is a parliamentary committee and I doubt anything requiring primary legislation will come about as a result of their report either, although I might be wrong. _________________ Steve.
Only three things are certain: death, taxes and stupid gun laws. |
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dpyper
Joined: 01 Jan 2011 Posts: 4
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Posted: Sun Jan 02, 2011 11:14 am Post subject: |
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If the recomendations are accepted deacs will be butchered and this bit must be stopped dead and I would hope the pressure put on to get rid of 1995 deac specifications.
Hopefully any changes will simplify this whole area of Law the ideal would be 1 a4 sheet in plain english so that the police and shooters actually know what the law is and it has no room for Chief Constables to devlop their own approaches. |
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