The Home Office are now telling police they should assess someone’s online activity – after an inquest heard Jake Davison was ‘obsessed with guns’
police forensic officers in Biddick Drive in the Keyham area of Plymouth, following the deaths of six people, including the offender, who died of gunshot wounds in a firearms incident
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The Home Office has today published new guidance, which updates the 2021 rules brought in after the Plymouth shootings.
Police are now required to look at the social media history of those applying for a gun – and can use special powers to help them investigate online history.
There’s also changes to the way GPs record whether someone is applying for a weapon – or currently has one at home.
The ongoing inquest into the five people killed in Keyham in August 2021, has heard a number of ‘red…
