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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.
Licensing guidance, good practice on firearms law, and forms for applying for approvals under the law.
This series brings together firearms guidance and application forms.
Guidance on safe handling and storage of air guns and air rifles.
Find out when transactions involving land and buildings are exempt from VAT.
The government response to the House of Lords Committee Report: ‘Proceed with Caution: Artificial Intelligence in Weapon Systems’.
You must register with the police if you manufacture, sell or transfer shotguns, firearms or ammunition or are involved in the repairing, testing or proving of them
Information about public access to military owned land.
Archive of statistics on firearm and shotgun certificates issued by police forces in England and Wales under the Firearms Acts 1968 to 1997.
British troops will soon be more lethal on the battlefield, as a new £90 million contract delivers modern, high precision rifles.
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