Gun control

Britain Raises Firearm Surveillance to Prevent Terror

The Scotland Yard have launched a public drive against mass casualty weapons to counter terrorist threats in the UK and to stop both illegal and legal arms falling into the hands of terrorists, the Business Standard reports.

In a rare public statement, the U.K. National Crime Agency (NCA) and Scotland Yard’s counter-terrorism command said that terrorists had tried to get their hands on a large quantity of weapons in order to launch wide-scale gun attacks in Britain.

The details have emerged as a result of investigations of five jihadist terror plots which have been foiled in the last two years. The investigation into the origins and background of the five foiled plots has also discovered that 800 legally owned guns had gone missing.