HC Deb 10 April 1907 vol 172 c214
MR. G. H. FABER (Boston)

I beg to ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department if, in view of his commutation of the death sentence in a recent case of planned and deliberate murder, he proposes to take any measures to restrict the sale of revolvers to such applicants only as shall have obtained a magistrate's certificate as to the necessity of the purchase.

THE SECRETARY OF STATE FOR THE HOME DEPARTMENT (Mr. GLADSTONE,) Leeds, W.

I am informed that the Pistols Act of 1903 has proved satisfactory in diminishing crime connected with the carrying of pistols, and I do not at present contemplate undertaking its extension or amendment. No possible amendment of the Act would prevent the class of murders which can be described as "planned and deliberate."