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Originally Posted by martyh
problem is though 10yr olds change quite a bit as they enter their teens ,what could have been a responsible 10yr old could be a little monster by 14-15 and by then it's too late if they already have a permit
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Quite, but it's really not difficult to buy an illegal gun far more suited to crime if you really want one. So far as I'm aware, the vast majority of gun crime isn't committed by people who held shotgun certificates when they were children. At least checks are done on those who are licenced to keep guns. There are no such controls over the feral youths, drugs runners and mobsters running around shooting up portions of our inner cities.