High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The Snowdrop Campaign was founded after the Dunblane Massacre in March 1996 to call for a total ban on the private ownership and use of handguns in the United Kingdom. Founded by friends of the bereaved families and so called because March is snowdrop time in Scotland, it gained over 705,000 signatures to a petition within 6 weeks. Following presentation of the petition and a speech by one of the founders, Mrs Ann Pearston, to the 1996 Labour Party conference, the new Labour government of Tony Blair introduced the Firearms (Amendment) (No. 2) Act 1997, which banned private ownership of handguns.

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