Mr. Fergus Healy:

I probably did not communicate this point clearly earlier on. The point I was trying to make concerned the problem the Garda Síochána has in this regard. When a perpetrator uses a gun in a crime, the practice used to be that many guns were left behind or were left in a car that was set on fire or whatever in an attempt to destroy the gun. The practice now is the gun is taken by the perpetrator from the scene with the intent of using it on a further occasion.