PARLIAMENTARY WRITTEN QUESTION
Firearms: Licensing (16 July 2020)

Question Asked

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the Answer of 12 February 2020 to Question 12350, when she plans to respond to the consultation entitled, Policing and Crime Act: proposals to implement legislation to define antique firearms, which closed in December 2017.

Asked by:
Karin Smyth (Labour)

Answer

We are carefully considering the consultation responses we received and are engaging further with interested parties on this technical issue. We will publish our conclusions as soon as possible and at the same time we will lay regulations before Parliament to define which firearms can safely be regarded as antique.


Answered by:
Kit Malthouse (Conservative)
24 July 2020

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