The Home Secretary is considering toughening up rules for crossbow owners after the triple killings in the north London suburbs this week, the security minister has said.
Dan Jarvis told LBC's Nick Ferrari at Breakfast that there was "evidence that we will need to consider very carefully" before proposing any changes to the crossbow laws.It is already illegal to carry a crossbow in public without a good reason, and it is also against the law for a child to own a crossbow, or to sell one to anyone under 18.But crossbows are easily obtainable online for a few hundred pounds or less, and they are used for competitive target shooting.
""The Home Secretary is already on that", he said. "She will look carefully at that evidence, she will look very carefully at what happened yesterday. And if she takes the view that there is a requirement to make changes to legislation, then she will not hesitate to act."We need to look at this in the round. We need to look at it very carefully indeed. But we will make a judgement as early as we're able as to whether the current legislative framework is appropriate.
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