Firearm Licenses (1231A/21)
Request
- How many licences were revoked by your constabulary in the years listed below?
FIREARMS
| 2019 | |
| 2020 | |
| 2021 (year to date) |
SHOTGUN
| 2019 | |
| 2020 | |
| 2021 (year to date) |
- How many licences were reissued to individuals who had previously had their licences revoked?
FIREARMS
| 2019 | |
| 2020 | |
| 2021 (year to date) |
SHOTGUN
| 2019 | |
| 2020 | |
| 2021 (year to date) |
- In the statutory guidance to police forces it gives the categories listed in the table below as reasons why certificates are refused or revoked. Please list for each year detailed in the table how many licences were revoked (not refused) for each of the headings.
| SUB HEADINGS FROM THE FIREARMS GUIDANCE TO FORCES | FIREARMS
2019 |
FIREARMS
2020 |
FIREARMS
2021 (YTD) |
SHOTGUN
2019 |
SHOTGUN
2020 |
SHOTGUN
2021 (YTD) |
| (i) Affiliation or involvement in terrorism or proscribed groups or organisations; or aggressive, abusive or anti-social behaviour or incitement to hatred against particular groups categorised by, for example, race, gender, disability, sexual orientation, age or religion; | ||||||
| (ii) affiliation with a serious organised crime group, or other involvement in serious organised crime; | ||||||
| (iii) affiliation with a gang, or other involvement in gang activities; | ||||||
| (iv) domestic violence or abuse; | ||||||
| (v) any other violence or credible threats of violence; | ||||||
| (vi) robbery or burglary; | ||||||
| (vii) criminal use of firearms or other offensive weapons; | ||||||
| (viii) sexual offences; | ||||||
| (ix) any of the above in relation to a family member or associate who lives at the address or has unsupervised access to the address. | ||||||
| (x) Other (please specify reason) |
Response
Please find attached our response.
Every effort is made to ensure that the figures presented are accurate and complete. However, it is important to note that these data have been extracted from a number of data sources used by forces for police purposes. The detail collected to respond specifically to your request is subject to the inaccuracies inherent in any large scale recording system. As a consequence, care should be taken to ensure data collection processes and their inevitable limitations are taken into account when interpreting those data.
The figures provided therefore are our best interpretation of relevance of data to your request, but you should be aware that the collation of figures for ad hoc requests may have limitations and this should be taken into account when those data are used.
If you decide to write an article / use the enclosed data we would ask you to take into consideration the factors highlighted in this document so as to not mislead members of the public or official bodies, or misrepresent the relevance of the whole or any part of this disclosed material.