Firearms Act

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• Firearms Act (Canada)

• The Firearms Act 1998

• The Firearms and Ammunition Ordinance 1981

• Firearms Act (Jamaica)

Many laws governing possession and use of firearms have been passed over the years in the UK and the countries comprising the union; there is a historical discussion at

• The English Assizes of Arms of 1181 and 1252 governed arms, but predated firearms
• The 1508 act forbidding the use of guns or crossbows without Royal Letters Patent^[1]
• The 1515 "Acte Avoidyng Shoting in Crossebowes and Gonnes"^[1]
• The 1542 Act introducing hunting licenses^[1]
• The 1549 Act forbidding the shooting of birdshot^[1]
• The 1663 Act for Ordering the Forces in the several Counties of the Kingdom ^[2]
• The Bill of Rights 1689, England
• The
  Disarming Acts
  of 1716 and 1725, Great Britain Act applicable explicitly to the Highlands of Scotland
  • The Act of Proscription 1746, essentially a restatement with harsher penalties of the Disarming Acts
• The Vagrancy Act 1824 providing power to arrest "... armed with any Gun, Pistol, Hanger, Cutlass, Bludgeon, or other offensive Weapon, or having upon him or her any Instrument, with Intent to commit any felonious Act;"^[1][3]
• The Night Poaching Act 1828^[1]
• The Game Act 1831
• The Night Poaching Act 1844^[1]
• The Poaching Prevention Act 1862
• The Gun Licence Act (1870)^[1]
• The
  Pistols Act 1903^[1]
• The
  10 & 11 Geo. 5. c. 43)^[1]
• The
  23 & 24 Geo. 5
  . c. 50)
• The
  24 & 25 Geo. 5
  . c. 16)
• The
  26 Geo. 5 & 1 Edw. 8
  . c. 39)
• The
  1 Edw. 8 & 1 Geo. 6. c. 12)^[1]
• The Firearms Act 1965 (c. 44)
• The Firearms Act 1968^[1]
• The Firearms Act 1969^[1]
• The Firearms (Dangerous Air Weapons) Rules 1969
• The Firearms Act 1982^[1]
• The Crossbows Act 1987^[1]
• The Criminal Justice (Firearms)(Northern Ireland) Order 1988
• The Firearms (Amendment) Act 1988^[1]
• The Firearms Rules 1989
• The Firearms Act (Amendment) Regulations 1992
• The Firearms (Amendment) Act 1992^[1]
• The Firearms (Amendment) Act 1993^[1]
• The Firearms (Dangerous Air Weapons) (Amendment) Rules 1993
• The Firearms (Amendment) Act 1994^[1]
• The Firearms (Amendment) Act 1997
• The Firearms (Amendment) (No. 2) Act 1997
• The Firearms (Museums) Order 1997
• The Firearms Rules 1998
• Criminal Justice Act 2003
• The Firearms (Northern Ireland) Commencement Order 2004
• Firearms (Appeals and Applications) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2005
• The Firearms (Amendment) (Northern Ireland) Order 2005
• The Firearms (Amendment) Rules 2005
• The Violent Crime Reduction Act 2006 Part 2
• The Firearms (Amendment) Regulations 2010
• The Firearms (Amendment) (No. 2) Rules 2013
• The Firearms (Amendment) Rules 2013
• The Firearms Regulations 2015

The Firearms Acts 1937 and 1965 was the collective title of the Firearms Act 1937 and the Firearms Act 1965.^[4]

• The Weapons Act 1990, Queensland, Australia
• German Weapons Act
• The Arms Act 1959, India
• The
  Arms Act 1983
  , New Zealand
• The
  Roberti-Roos Assault Weapons Control Act of 1989
  , California, USA
• Gun laws in the Czech Republic

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