As the law currently stands, there is no minimum age to get a licence to use a shotgun in the UK.
Labour MP Thomas Docherty, who is calling for a minimum age to be introduced, told the Today programme that children as young as seven were using guns.
The UK's gun laws, he said, "haven't kept up with modern society".
But David Taylor, of the Countryside Alliance, said that the idea that children licensed to use guns would go on to commit crime was "deeply offensive".
And he added that, in the last 10 years, there have been only two cases where children under 14 have had their shotgun licence revoked.
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