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Met police to have machine guns

01 January 1991

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Met police to have machine guns
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Following the controversy surrounding the decision to issue sub-
machine guns to the Metropolitan Police, Margaret Thatcher,
Prime Minister,revealed in the Commons yesterday that the Labour
administration in 1976 authorised the Metropolitan Police to buy
some conventional sub-machine guns.

Standard (Clos P) 84/04/05 p7; Guardian 84/04/06 p1,5,26; Times
p1,4, 30 ; Telegraph p1,34

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