Replica gun call

Friday 03 July 1992 19:02 EDT

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Usdaw, the shopworkers' union, and Bifu, the bank workers' union, called for legislation to limit the availability of replica weapons. Armed raids on banks and building societies have soared from 868 in 1989 to 1,633 in 1991, and many of the weapons used were replicas.

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