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Prime Minister Gaston Browne has cancelled plans to give investors permission to construct a gun assembling plant in the proposed Economic Zone here.<\/p>

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Browne called in to Observer Radio tonight (Saturday), to announce that he has already instructed the Attorney General and other colleagues to scrap the deal.<\/p>\n

\u201cI have said to them that in the interest of the nation, rather than having a situation where we bring in that factory and divide over it, let us scuttle that decision.\u201d<\/p>

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Moments before his call, Browne was being strongly criticized for agreeing to the gun factory.<\/p>

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But the Prime Minister reveled that he was not on island when the decision was made in cabinet to have an Italian firm set up a hand-gun manufacturing plant in Antigua, for export.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe do understand the risk,\u201d Browne said adding, \u201cI think it is in the best interest of the nation to just scuttle the deal.\u201d<\/p>

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The country\u2019s leader said he thanked everyone for their input and is always open to \u201cconstructive criticism.\u201d<\/p>\n

He admitted that he wasn\u2019t comfortable with the deal to begin with, \u201cbut having heard from the people I feel even firmer in my decision that we ought not to proceed.\u201d<\/p>

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