Firearms: Licensing

(asked on 20th January 2015) - View Source

Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many illegal firearms were confiscated by police forces in each of the last five years.


Answered by
Baroness Featherstone Portrait
Baroness Featherstone
This question was answered on 5th February 2015

The National Ballistic Intelligence Service (NABIS) is the national body responsible for collating and analysing data on the illegal use of firearms. The Home Office does not maintain records of firearms seized by police forces
in England and Wales.

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