§ 112. Mr. Awberyasked the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he is aware of the damage caused by the indiscriminate use of air guns and rifles and of the number of cases brought to the juvenile court of boys convicted of using them illegally; and, in view of the fact that there is no control over their sale and that licences, issued without regard to age, are necessary only for carrying them in the street, if he will take steps to control the sale and fix a minimum age for the issue of such licences.
§ Mr. R. A. ButlerA gun licence is a revenue licence. It does not entitle a person to acquire a gun if its acquisition is otherwise forbidden by law; and it is already an offence under the Firearms Act, 1937, to sell an air gun or an air rifle to a person under 17 and for a person under 17 to purchase such a weapon.