Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 17 December 2014

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality

Firearms Licences: Working Group on the Review of Firearms Licensing

9:40 am

Mr. Fergus Healy:

I agree. In relation to the Norway incident, in the booklet that I passed out, handgun No. 6 is the actual handgun used by the perpetrator. The authorities in the UK, following the Hungerford and Dunblane incidents, responded by prohibiting the licensing of high velocity rifles. In Northern Ireland, there is a different situation. Handguns are licensable in Northern Ireland. However, on mainland UK, the licensing of handguns and rifles has been banned since both those incidents.

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