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Home Office Guidance to Police (Adobe Acrobat file 712Kb)

Current guidance to the police on the enforcement of the Firearms Act - you really should download this if you are a certificate holder in Great Britain.

Home Office Guidance on Antiques (link to Home Office)

This is a link to the Home Office website, largely covered in the above document.

Cybershooters Campaign Literature (Adobe Acrobat file)

A short file with details of our views on what should be done to allow guns for self-defence in Great Britain.

Deactivated Guns' Collector's Association submission (Adobe Acrobat file 17Kb)

Submission of the DGCA to the Firearms Consultative Committee.

NPA Fighting Fund county court kit (Zipped file 127Kb)

This is a kit to enable you to lodge a claim in your local county court against the Home Office, to claim interest on your handgun compensation claim. Full instructions, and all the forms you will need. Note: we are providing this as a service to the NPA FF, we are not liable for any of the contents or any legal proceedings.

Measures to Regulate Firearms (Adobe Acrobat file 58Kb)

The infamous UN report outlining provisions for global regulation of private ownership of firearms. Especially onerous are pages 5 and 6 of the report.

UN Protocol on small arms A/RES/55/255 (Adobe Acrobat file 163Kb)

This is the text of the "Protocol against the Illicit Manufacturing of and

Trafficking in Firearms, Their Parts and Components and Ammunition, supplementing the United Nations Convention against Transnational Organized Crime". This will almost certainly be international in the near future - read carefully. (Updated 26/06/01)

UN Small Arms Conference 2001 Report (Adobe Acrobat file 247Kb)

This contains the "plan of action" the UN wants every country to adopt in relation to small arms. It's very long and dull but you should know what the world's bureaucrats are cooking up for us. If you want the simple version and don't have high blood pressure go to the UNICEF website and watch their pretty propaganda show.

Report of the European Commission on the operation of the European Firearms Directive (Adobe Acrobat file 136Kb)

This is a report summarising responses from EU member states on the operation of the European Firearms Directive, 91/477/EEC, better known to shooters in the form of the European Firearms Pass and Article 7 authorities. There are some interesting bits and pieces in this report, paragraph 45 among them.

Report of Committee on Control of Firearms (scanned from original) (Adobe Acrobat file 3Mb)

Report in text format (Adobe Acrobat file 64kb)

Where it all started - the 1918 report which led to the Firearms Act 1920 and firearms legislation throughout much of the British Empire. Here you can read how the firearm certification system came to be. Note the hand-written crossings out and "Confidential" on the cover - this was a classified document until 1968! Also especially noteworthy are the reasons given for the inclusion of rifles in the licensing system.

Note that the scanned version takes about 15 minutes to download on a 56kbps modem.

Crown copyright is reproduced with the permission of the Controller of Her Majesty's Stationery Office. This material must not be copied, distributed, published or sold without the permission of the Controller of HMSO.

Use of Licensed Firearms in Homicide (Adobe Acrobat file 281Kb)

Another classic - although definitely biased with lots of "ifs" and "buts", this Home Office report indicates that in the period 1992-94 in England & Wales 92.5% of handgun-related homicides and 86-89% of firearm-related homicides were committed with illegally possessed firearms! These are the only detailed and supported statistics which exist that separate out legal and illegally possessed gun use in crime in this country.

Breakdown of legal firearms used in crime (Adobe Acrobat file 86Kb)

This is a more detailed breakdown of the figures presented in the report above, and actually show that the Home Office is wrong - two of the crimes supposedly committed with handguns were actually with rifles. Of the four remaining "crimes", one was an accident and another was a suicide. So in fact in the period 1992-94, only two murders were committed with legally possessed handguns in England & Wales!

A Parliamentary question elicited more information.

Application for the grant, renewal or variation of a firearm certificate (Adobe Acrobat file 326Kb)

The current form 101 - much better reproduction than the one on the HMSO website. You need to read this in conjunction with the Reference Form, form 125 (155Kb) to fully understand it. These forms are used throughout Great Britain.

Explanation of Draft Firearms (Northern Ireland) Order 2002

Also see the actual draft law here. Best read in conjunction with the following submission (110Kb). Also read the Northern Ireland Affairs Committee's opinion here.

Controls over Firearms - Report of the Home Affairs Committee

Second Report of the Home Affairs Committee for Session 1999-2000, covering recommendations for general changes to the system of control in Great Britain. Important to read! (Added 25/4/00).

Controls over Firearms - Submission to the Committee

Submission by Steven Kendrick (173Kb) to the recent Home Affairs Committee inquiry. The summary appears at Appendix 53 in the report. (Added 25/4/00).

Firearms (Amendment) Act 1997 (link to HMSO website)

The law that scapegoated 57,000 innocent people for the actions of one madman - read the detail of the law that banned handguns, expanding ammunition and mail order sales of firearms and ammunition in Great Britain. Should be read in conjunction with the Firearms (Amendment) (No. 2) Act 1997 that repealed the exemptions for small-calibre pistols kept at licensed pistol clubs - effectively making anyone in possession of an air pistol with a muzzle energy of more than 6 ft/lb a criminal, liable to ten years in prison if caught!

Firearms Rules 1998 (link to HMSO website)

Regulations made under the Firearms Acts 1968 - 1997 relating to the possession of firearms and forms of certificates and permits.

"And lastly, to vindicate these rights, when actually violated or attacked, the subjects of England are entitled, in the first place, to the regular administration and free course of justice in the courts of law; next, to the right of petitioning the king and parliament for redress of grievances; and, lastly, to the right of having and using arms for self-preservation and defence." - Sir William Blackstone, from 'Commentaries on the Laws of England', 1783

"The liberties of our country, the freedom of our civil constitution are worth defending at all hazards; and it is our duty to defend them against all attacks. We have received them as a fair inheritance from our worthy ancestors: they purchased them for us with toil and danger and expense of treasure and blood, and transmitted them to us with care and diligence. It will bring an everlasting mark of infamy on the present generation, enlightened as it is, if we should suffer them to be wrested from us by violence without a struggle, or be cheated out of them by the artifices of false and designing men." - Samuel Adams, 1771.

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The "false and designing" man of the 1990s, Tony Blair MP, who got himself elected as Prime Minister in part by scapegoating 57,000 innocent law-abiding people for the crimes of one madman in his speech at the 1996 Labour Party Conference.

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