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This guidance summarises the requirements, controls and sanctions that Border Force applies to firearms and offensive weapons when they are imported into the UK.
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Analyses of information held by the Home Office on offences involving the use of firearms recorded by police in England and Wales.
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Updated guidance on the arms embargo in place on Armenia and Azerbaijan.
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