Mr. Jeff McCann:

I once had a firearm pointed at me during a bank robbery. I did not hang around thinking, "It is okay; it is only a semi-automatic", or "It is a sawn-off shotgun". It took quite a while to be able to sit down and recall it. When the police were questioning me, all I was able to tell them was that there were two barrels. That is all I knew. I could not say if it was large or small, and it did not matter. No matter what that weapon - I use that term because it was a weapon at that stage as it was threatening me - was being used for or what it was, it was lethal at that stage if that person had pulled that trigger. On Mr. Tope's point, that was a malevolent person using a firearm for purposes that are not ours and with which we should not be linked.