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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.
The laws on selling, buying and carrying a knife or weapon depend on the type of knife or weapon, your age and your circumstances.
Dstl ensures the UK armed forces have the required weapons capability through research, development and demonstration of advances in science and technology.
Scientific Advisory Committee on the Medical Implications of Less-Lethal Weapons has been replaced by Medical Implications of Less-Lethal Weapons Expert Committee . The Scientific Advisory Committee on the medical implications of less-lethal weapons (SACMILL) provides independent advice to UK government...
Licensing guidance, good practice on firearms law, and forms for applying for approvals under the law.
Export controls applying to Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD) related activities – transfer of technology and provision of technical support
List of designated persons and notices issued about new designations, revocations, delistings and other changes to the UK Sanctions List.
For more than 70 years, AWE has supported the UK Government’s nuclear defence strategy and Continuous At Sea Deterrence (CASD).
Guidance for those producing, processing, consuming, possessing, importing or exporting chemicals covered by the Chemical Weapons Convention (CWC).
Controls under the Firearms (Northern Ireland) Order 2004, prohibited weapons, applications for removal of prohibition and making an appeal.
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