The brother of a teenager shot dead at a petrol station today said that new five-year minimum sentences for illegal gun possession are not long enough.

Mohammed Sadique, pictured, whose 16-year-old brother Yasser Hussain was murdered, said the sentences have to be long enough to stop people picking up guns - and five years isn't a deterrent.

He was backed by other victims of armed criminals in Bradford.

The longer jail sentences announced by the Home Secretary David Blunkett yesterday came in the wake of the double murders of two Birmingham teenage girls at a New Year's Eve party.

Mr Sadique, from Keighley, said: "There are people with criminal pasts who know exactly what they are about and will cut people down who get in their way.

"But there are also people who do not realise just how dangerous guns are. They do not realise that one pull of the trigger and a life is gone.

"For me, who has lost a loved one through guns, five years seems nothing."

Tin Lee from the Po Sing Chinese restaurant says the minimum sentence should be 10 years.

Mr Lee was shot through the foot by armed robbers who waited at his house as he returned with the restaurant takings in March last year.

He said: "It was the most frightening thing I have ever gone through. They were waiting for me when I got home.

"The gun was about 18in long. They shot me as I got out of my car and was going to open my front door. "I'm a cook and I still can't stand for very long on that foot now. It is still very painful."

Mr Lee needed four months off work to recover and can still remember the shooting in vivid detail.

"Sentences of 10 years would be much more like it," he said. "Anything that stops them taking a gun out. Five years makes them think 'I'll be out in under three'. It's not enough."

A city centre newsagent, who asked not to be named, said the sentences should be even longer. The woman, whose colleague was threatened by a gunman last month, said: "I would lock them up and throw away the key. My assistant came back to work but her nerves are terrible. She only came back because she is determined they won't beat her."

Latest figures show there were 1,865 firearms incidents in one year in West Yorkshire, 1,503 involving air weapons.

MP Gerry Sutcliffe, Labour, Bradford South, has been campaigning for an all-out guns ban.

But he says the five-year sentences were strict enough to get the right message across for now.

"In the short term this is exactly what is needed," he said. "But we also need to look at why people think guns are glamorous and tackle the gun culture itself.

"People use guns in Bradford like they used to use their fists and hands."

A spokesman for Bradford police, said: "While we need to see the proposals in more detail anyone involved in gun-related crime can expect to receive a custodial sentence."

He said the clampdown on replicas was also crucial. "We are always very concerned about the availability of replica and imitation firearms and have made efforts to take these out of circulation."

The force had already made significant successes in tackling gun crime including weapons amnesties, he said.

Magistrate and community spokesman Bary Malik, said it was the first positive step coming at just the right time to reassure the public.

"I think five years is about right," he said. "You can't give life for carrying a gun but five years sends out the right message."

In the proposals, announced yesterday, the Government also wants to introduce a ban on replica guns such as air rifles which can be adapted to fire live bullets.

The crackdown comes ahead of Friday's gun crime summit involving the Home Secretary, the police, and community leaders.