§ 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."