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It's going to happen again and again! No amount of new law or gun control is going to make any difference. It appears to be that he was driven to it by the UK tax man. Now there's no possible excuse for what happened, BUT I think there's a social failing in that there's no one to go to for genuine help in such desperate circumstances. Lawyers are constantly on the take themselves, and CAB is wholly inadequate. There's a whole lot of crap being talked by Labour about GP's needing to do follow-up mental health checks on people with gun licences. GP's are neither qualified to do this, nor need any extra burdens. Firearms will always be easy to obtain illegally if you are determined, and I think most of the gun control in recent years has been counterproductive. Gun clubs were the best way of monitoring firearms activity, and they've been legislated out of existence. And, what's this nonsense about "investigating if his licences covered the weapons being held". The whole point of a licence is that it's an up front and fully transparent declaration that you are doing something legally. Any licence that "needs investigating" is completely self defeating. Once again bureaucracy totally loses sight of what it was put in place for!

I'm no expert, and i have not given it half the thought you seem to have, but i've watched the progress made on things like laptops and phones. The phone i'm using now, if i make no calls, the battery lasts for 3 days + My first phone, on standby, lasted for 4 hours. My Laptop, it has a 4 hour range. Before, it was said there would never be a battery made to power a computer. Batteries are at the stage of development now, where they contain a small charging device, that actually CHARGES the battery using radio waves. As these waves pass the charger, they create a positive and negative effect on a certain part, creating movement. They are attempting to use this small movement to create an alternating current which in turn will charge the battery. I believe they already have a working prototype based on Bluetooth technology, but has to be within a very short distance at the moment, and does not charge well enough, or last long enough at the moment to be effective. My point is, the technology is on its way, and i believe it will be here in my lifetime.