Uproar over English football player's gun tattoo on his calf.

Raheem Sterling has triggered the fury of anti-gun campaigners — by unveiling a new tattoo of an M16 assault rifle on his right leg, according to Sun reports.

Sterling posted a picture of himself training with his England team-mates at St George’s Park, with the tattoo on his right calf clearly visible.

They called for the striker, 23, to be dropped from the England World Cup squad, with one saying: “That tattoo is sick.” An anti-gun campaigning mother whose son was shot dead said Sterling’s new tattoo is “an absolute disgrace.”

Lucy Cope, 63, of Mothers Against Guns, said it was “sickening” he was showing off the inking to his Instagram followers — many of them impressionable youngsters.