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Make the sale and use of laser pens in the UK a Criminal Offence

Submitted on Tuesday 16th February 2016

Rejected on Wednesday 17th February 2016

Current status: Rejected

Rejection code: duplicate (see below for details)

Petition Action

Make the sale and use of laser pens in the UK a Criminal Offence

Petition Details

Following the Virgin Atlantic flight incident involving the shining of a laser pen on the aircraft yesterday, and also a far more dangerous incident involving a Search And Rescue helicopter in Scotland, it is time that doing this was a criminal offence with a mandatory jail sentence.

Additional Information

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-35577600
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-35577929


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This petition was rejected

The Government e-Petitions Team gave the following reason:

There's already a petition about this issue. We cannot accept a new petition when we already have one about a very similar issue.

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