Diana Johnson – 2014 Parliamentary Question to the Home Office

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Diana Johnson on 2014-05-07.

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what estimate her Department has made of the number of air rifles in the UK.

Norman Baker

Only air rifles which have a discharge velocity of 12ft lbs are held on a
firearms certificate.

The police National Firearms Licensing Management System (NFLMS) shows that as
of 12 May, 11,852 such air rifles were held on certificate in England and
Wales.

Low-powered air rifles (those below 12ft lbs discharge velocity) are not
licensed in England and Wales. It is therefore not possible to provide an
estimate of the number of air rifles which fall into this classification.