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United Kingdom

This jurisdictional hub aggregates FRC holdings related to the United Kingdom. It supports research on firearms history, technology, law, policy, and culture from the early modern period through the present.

  • Legal sources: Acts of Parliament, Statutory Instruments, Home Office circulars and guidance, appellate case law, and select local bylaws.
  • Historical materials: newspapers, photographs, maps, catalogs, Board of Ordnance and War Office records, proof house registers (London and Birmingham), manufacturer archives (e.g., Enfield, BSA, Webley), and oral histories tied to UK people and places.
  • Research outputs: technical reports, academic studies, training manuals, and curated datasets relevant to the UK.

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    8 Stat. at Large, from the Twelfth Year of Queen Anne, to the Fifth Year of King George I: To which Is Prefixed, a Table Containing the Titles of all the Statutes During that Period 306–07 (Danby Pickering ed. 1764)
    (1716)
    CAP. LIV-An Act for the more effectual securing the Peace of the Highlands in Scotland, Enacted November 1, 1716 (anno primo Georgii I): Prohibited any person within the Scottish Highlands from possession any broad sword, target, poynard, whingar, durk, side-pistol or side-pistols, or gun, or any other warlike weapons. Violators shall forfeit such arms and fined not less than five nor more than forty pounds sterling, and imprisoned until such fine is paid.
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    9 Geo. 1, c. 22 (1723)
    (1723)
    An act for the more effectual punishing wicked and evil-disposed persons going armed in disguise, and doing injuries and violences to the persons and properties of his Majesty's subjects, and for the more speedy bringing the offenders to justice: Prohibited anyone going armed with sword, fire-arms, or other offensive weapons while having their faces blacked or disguised in any forest, chase, park, paddock, grounds inclosed with any wall, pale, or fence? or in any high road, open heath, common or down, or to wilfully hunt unlawfully. Violators guilty of a felony, and shall suffer death.