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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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  • Item type:Item,
    Law of King Canute A. D. 1016-1035. Secular Dooms, Cap. 80
    (1035)
    Allowed individuals to hunt on their own lands. Anyone caught hunting on the King's lands would suffer "the full penalty."
  • Item type:Item,
    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.
  • Item type:Item,
    The Dialogue Concerning the Exchequer, circa 1080, Book 1,§ 12
    (1080)
    Prohibited hunting in the forests of the king.