Written Question·Home Office·UIN 30491
Firearms: Licensing
Tabled: 10 February 2025
Answered: 18 February 2025
Question
Matt Bishop
Labour — Forest of Dean
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will make it her Department’s policy to create a unified national firearms licensing authority.
Answer
Dame Diana JohnsonThe Firearms Act 1968 gives responsibility for the issuing of firearms licences to Chief Officers of Police.Since November 2021, however, the Statutory Guidance issued by the Secretary of State requires forces to make certain checks on the suitability of ...
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