Dunblane: How Britain Banned Handguns

On 13 March 1996, a gunman walked into the gym hall in Dunblane Primary School, Stirlingshire, shot dead 16 pupils and their teacher and seriously injured 14 pupils and two other teachers. The gunman, who was armed with four legally owned handguns and over 700 rounds of ammunition, then killed himself.

The Dunblane massacre stunned the world and changed Britain, but not without a political battle. This is the story of one of the worst crimes in 20th-century Britain and how ordinary people forced the government to ensure the tragedy could not happen again, leading to a complete ban on handguns and the institution of some of the tightest gun laws in the world.