Labor MP for Keyham, where five people were killed in a mass shooting, calls for a ban on pump-action guns from homes.
Luke Pollard said the country’s gun laws needed to be changed to prevent another tragedy like this.
He also said medical professionals should be asked to alert gun licensing authorities if they have concerns about a gun owner’s mental health.
The MP presented his Firearms and Hate Crimes Bill to Parliament on Wednesday.
His proposals come over six months after Jake Davison staged a six-minute killing spree in Keyham, Plymouth before taking his own life.
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The five victims included Davison’s mother Maxine, 51, Stephen Washington, 59, Kate Shepherd, 66, Lee Martyn, 43, and three-year-old Sophie Martyn.
It was later revealed that the shotgun used during the killings had previously been confiscated and Davison’s license revoked following concerns about an attack on two youths in September 2020.
However, the license and gun were returned to him in July 2021 following an investigation by Devon and Cornwall Police.
The Independent Office for Police Conduct (IOPC) is investigating how police approved his application and later returned his license and shotgun.
Mr Pollard told MPs that the shooting had devastated “the close-knit communities” of his Plymouth Sutton and Devonport constituencies.
“We want this never to happen to any other community,” he said.
His bill would ban the keeping of pump-action firearms in the home – although there would be exceptions for farmers and pest controllers.
It would also place a duty on medical professionals to report any concerns about a gun owner’s mental health to gun licensing authorities so their suitability to hold a gun can be verified.
The MP said he saw “no good reason” why anyone should keep such weapons in their home.
“I want to get rid of our communities or these dangerous and unnecessary weapons,” he told MPs.
Mr Pollard said that after the shooting “big hearts triumphed” but now it was time for “cool heads” to change the country’s laws.
The proposed legislation would also make misogyny a hate crime, which Pollard says is a step toward tackling the internet’s “rotten cesspool of hate” that teaches young men to “channel their frustration into an insidious hatred of women.”
His proposed legislation passed its first stage unopposed; However, being a backbencher, his bill is unlikely to become law.
After the Plymouth shooting, the government said that from 1 November 2021 all firearms applications should be accompanied by a medical document signed by a practicing doctor.
Applicants’ social media, financial history and domestic violence history would also be checked, the government said.
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