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Crime: Firearms

Volume 472: debated on Thursday 21 February 2008

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many crimes were recorded by the police in which deactivated or reactivated firearms were used in the last five years. (182364)

Information on deactivated or reactivated firearms has been centrally separately collected since 2004-05. Available data from 2004-05 up to and including 2006-07 are given in the following table.

Crimes recorded by the police in England and Wales in which reactivated and deactivated firearms were used, England and Wales, 2004-05 to 2006-07

Number of offences

Weapon type

2004-051

2005-06

2006-07

Reactivated handgun

2

2

2

Deactivated imitation firearm

1

4

2

Other reactivated firearm

2

1

1 More explicit guidelines for the classification of weapons introduced on 1 April 2004 may have increased the recording of firearm offences, particularly those committed by imitation weapons.