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The laws on selling, buying and carrying a knife or weapon depend on the type of knife or weapon, your age and your circumstances.
Trends in cautioning, sentencing, and the prison population of knife or offensive weapon possession offences.
This guidance summarises the requirements, controls and sanctions that Border Force applies to firearms and offensive weapons when they are imported into the UK.
Quarterly statistical release on trends in cautioning and sentencing of knife or offensive weapon possession offences.
A statistical release on trends in cautioning and sentencing of knife or offensive weapon offences.
The government is consulting on a new licensing scheme designed to save lives by blocking illegal knife sales and imports.
An unprecedented number of deadly knives have been taken off the streets as knife murders plummet after the government’s first year in office.
Trends in cautioning and sentencing of knife and offensive weapon offences.
The number of robberies involving a knife, or the threat of one, continues to fall in England and Wales.
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