bearingarms.com By Tom Knighton
Sometimes, it’s fun to sit around with your friends and discuss your ex-girlfriends or ex-boyfriends, depending on which is more applicable. You can hear some absolute horror stories–stories that might be outliers in the grand scheme of things but are still horrifying.
My own involves an ex who I lived with for six months before learning that literally everything other than her name was an outright lie, including her marital status.
Seriously.
Others have had horror stories as they were trying to extracate themselves from a horrific relationship. Their partners were still, technically, partners in the legal sense, but were dangerous people. More than one such person got a gun in order to protect themselves from said partner.
And a new UK gun license requirement–one that many here in the US want to see in place as well–probably wouldn’t have worked out well for those folks.
The partners of all gun licence applicants are being asked questions for the first time as five police forces in England and Wales seek to strengthen licensing processes.
The forces – Gwent, the Metropolitan Police, Bedfordshire, Cambridgeshire and Hertfordshire – are testing a questionnaire designed to build a more detailed picture of anyone who wants to own a gun, with a particular focus on domestic abuse.
The initiative, called Project Titanium, has been developed by Gwent Police with the help of domestic abuse survivors.
It has already resulted in some applications being refused or existing licences being revoked.
Insp Jodie Davies, from the force’s firearms licensing team, said: “We are absolutely not saying applicants will be domestic abuse perpetrators, but any opportunity to gather information is welcome.
“We’ve had one case where the partner was contacted and stated that she couldn’t speak to the firearms officer at her home because she was being controlled and coerced…
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