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What’s Happening With Gun Law Amendments?
Fri, August 29, 2014
And in one final bit of news from the media's impromptu 32 minute interview with the prime minister today, we asked about the much discussed Gun law amendments. The government committed months ago to revising them - during which time the PUP proposed but never tabled its own version of the laws. Critics say the gun laws are too oppressive, and the Prime Minister says that the new draft legislation had to be careful to balance competing interests of citizen safety and the presumption of innocence:..

Prime Minister Dean Barrow
"I've said to the minister in Cabinet we cant wait on no study on the part of the police. We know what has to be done. It's not easy to cure whatever sees as a mischief without perhaps making the law too loose and allowing people to get away, so it will have to be a very deaf drafting exercise, but there is a House meeting next Friday and I hope and believe that the amendments will be presented for first reading at that meeting next Friday."

That bill will go to the House next Friday.

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