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The Snowdrop Petition: The Hungerford Massacre In The UK

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In 1987 roughly 70 miles outside of West London a lone gunman went on a six-hour shooting spree killing 16 people before killing himself. The gunman was armed with a legally owned semiautomatic rifle and a handgun. The Hungerford massacre is what brought on the Firearms Act into effect after public outrage. This ban includes semiautomatic rifles and also increased registration and requirements on other weapons. In 1996 in the Scottish town of Dunblane a man armed with four handguns, that was purchased legally, shot and killed 16 school aged children and one adult before killing himself. That was the worst shooting so far in history of Britain and it sparked the Snowdrop Petition. The petition drove legislation to ban all handguns and the government
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