13 March 1996 (13 March 1996) c. 9:35 – 9:40 a.m. (GMT)
Target
Pupils and staff at Dunblane Primary School
Attack type
School shooting, mass murder, mass shooting, pedicide, murder–suicide
Weapons
9mm Browning HP pistol (x2)
Smith & Wesson M19 .357 Magnum revolver (x2)
Deaths
18 (including the perpetrator)[1]
Injured
15
Perpetrator
Thomas Hamilton
The Dunblane massacre took place at Dunblane Primary School in Dunblane, near Stirling, Scotland, on 13 March 1996, when 43-year-old Thomas Hamilton shot dead 16 pupils and one teacher and injured 15 others before killing himself. It remains the deadliest mass shooting in British history.[1]
Following the killings, public debate centred on gun control laws, including public petitions for a ban on private ownership of handguns and an official inquiry, which produced the 1996 Cullen Report.[2]
The incident led to a public campaign, known as the Snowdrop Petition, which helped bring about legislation, specifically two new Firearms Acts, which outlawed the private ownership of most handguns within Great Britain with few exceptions.[1] The UK Government instituted a temporary gun buyback programme which provided some compensation to lawful handgun owners.
Since the massacre and tighter firearm restrictions, no mass shootings with handguns have occurred, though incidents with shotguns and rifles—such as the 2010 Cumbria shootings or the 2021 Plymouth shooting—have taken place; however, as has been consistently the case since the introduction of the Firearms Act 1968, incidents involving lawfully owned firearms in the UK remain extremely rare.
^ abc"Mass shootings and gun control". BBC News. 2 June 2010. Archived from the original on 1 April 2018. Retrieved 12 March 2017.
^"Public inquiry into the shootings at Dunblane Primary School". gov.uk. Scottish Office. 16 October 1996. Archived from the original on 22 March 2021. Retrieved 9 March 2017.
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