Children, 10, haveshotgun licences
Children as young as 10 have shotgun certificates partly because British gun laws are "a mess", MPs examining laws in the wake of Derrick Bird's killing spree were told yesterday.
Bird killed 12 people in Whitehaven, west Cumbria, on June 2.
Three leading shooting organisations told MPs that firearms legislation was formed from more than 30 Acts of Parliament and needed to be simplified in one document.