§ Major CARVERasked the Home Secretary if his attention has been called to the increase of traffic in firearms smuggled into this country; whether he finds that the existing legal powers are sufficient to deal with all such cases of smuggling; and, if not, whether he will consider the desirability of asking for additional powers?
§ Sir W. JOYNSON-HICKSI have no evidence of any increase in the smuggling of firearms into this country or of any considerable smuggling of the kind; and the existing legal powers to deal with the matter do not appear to need amendment.