§ MR. JOICEY (Durham, Chester-le-Street)I beg to ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department if his attention has been called to the growing practice of carrying revolvers in the County of Durham; and if, in the interests and safety of the general public, he will instruct the authorities to be more stringent in enforcing payment of licences for firearms, and of the penalties where firearms are carried without licences?
§ THE SECRETARY OF STATE FOR THE HOME DEPARTMENT (Mr. MATTHEWS,) Birmingham, E.I am informed by the Chief Constable that the police in the County of Durham have stringent orders to report to their superior officers any cases of persons carrying revolvers or other firearms without a licence, but that up to the present time there does not appear to be any increase in the county of the practice of people so doing.