TV tonight: how the Dunblane massacre led Britain to ban handguns

2026-03-12 - 06:32

Marking the 30th anniversary of the school atrocity, those who pushed to get the weapons outlawed tell their stories. Plus: Spring Clean – Keep, Chuck Or Cash In? Here’s what to watch this evening 9pm, BBC Two A former PE teacher talks with startling calmness as she opens this documentary by recalling 13 March 1996, the day a gunman entered a Dunblane primary school gym and rapidly fired at the adults and children there. It remains the deadliest firearms atrocity in the UK. Parents of the victims, TV presenter Lorraine Kelly, the former prime minister Tony Blair and others help to tell the story of the campaign that followed to outlaw private handguns. “There’s an assumption that this horrific thing happened and guns were banned,” says Kelly. “It didn’t happen like that.” Hollie Richardson Continue reading...