knew I'd seen reference to .32 cal somewhere, taken from BASC website
"The Home Office Guidance recommends that handguns for humane dispatch start at a baseline of .32 and are restricted to one or two shots. This means that once the applicant has satisfied the good reason for the grant of a handgun, he then has the opportunity to make the case for a handgun other than a .32. The cases of Goodman, Newton, Palmer and Hall, and that of Jeans –v- Chief Constable Northern Constabulary (2005) establish that in those particular instances deerstalkers have been able to make the case for other hand