FIREARMS AUTHORITIES, GUN LAWS & STATISTICS

 

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UNITED KINGDOM - LEGISLATION

• Firearms (Amendment) Act 1988

• Firearms (Amendment) Act 1992

• Firearms (Amendment) Act 1997

• Firearms (Amendment) (No.2) Act 1997

• Anti-Social Behaviour Act 2003

• Violent Crime Reduction Act 2006

• Firearms Rules 1998

• Cullen Report into the Dunblane Primary School Shootings : Transcript of Public Inquiry

• Home Office - Consultation on Firearms Legislation

• Home Office - Police Use of Firearms and Firearms Licensing

• Metropolitan Police - Firearm Site (useful information on legislation and how it is applied).

• Home Affairs Committee - Report on Control of Firearms, March 2000 : Appendices (including evidence) : Government’s Reply

• Public Accounts Committee - Report on Handgun Surrender and Compensation

• Northern Ireland Committee - Report on The Control of Firearms in Northern Ireland and the Draft Firearms (Northern Ireland) Order 2002 : Minutes of Evidence and Appendices: Government's Reply

 

ENGLAND AND WALES - STATISTICS

• Firearm Certificates Statistics 2008/09

• Gun Crime in England and Wales 2008-2009

 

SCOTLAND - STATISTICS

• Recorded Crimes & Offences involving Firearms, Scotland, 2008-09

• Firearm Certificates Statistics, Scotland, 2009

 

AUSTRALIA

• Sharp Drop in Gun Crime

 

CANADA

• Canadian Firearms Centre (Department of Justice)

SOUTH AFRICA

• Gun Free South Africa – statistics

 

USA

• ATF (Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives)

• Bureau of Justice Statistics on Firearm Injury and Death from Crime

• National Institute of Justice

• Violence Prevention Research Program – the most technically knowledgeable source on handguns in California and the USA