questionText: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will make it her Department’s policy to create a unified national firearms licensing authority.
answerText: The Firearms Act 1968 gives responsibility for the issuing of firearms licences to Chief Officers of Police.Since November 2021, however, the Statutory Guidance issued by the Secretary of State requires forces to make certain checks on the suitability of ...
heading: Firearms: Licensing