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Tuesday, August 25, 2009

UK violent video games can be sold to children due to legal loophole

Retailers who sell violent video games to children in the UK cannot be prosecuted because of a legal blunder 25 years ago.

The Video Recordings Act (VRA) was brought in by Margaret Thatcher's government and set down that video games must be classified and age rated by the British Board of Film Classification.

It made it illegal to sell violent video games to children.

Read full story on the BBC here...