Letter: Profit on guns

Thursday 12 December 1996 00:02 GMT

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Profit on guns

Sir: I see that the taxpayer is to pay pounds 150m compensation for the destruction of 160,000 firearms ("Tory gun-ban rebels fail to win more cash", 5 Dec). This works out at pounds 937.50 per gun and would seem to offer a healthy profit to most gun-owners. Why?

J C DAVISON

Hertford

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