Firearms Act

List

Canada

• Firearms Act

  Finland

• The Firearms Act 1998

  Hong Kong

• The Firearms and Ammunition Ordinance 1981

  Jamaica

• Firearms Act

  United Kingdom

• 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
• The 1515 "Acte Avoidyng Shoting in Crossebowes and Gonnes"
• The 1542 Act introducing hunting licenses
• The 1549 Act forbidding the shooting of birdshot
• 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;"
• The Night Poaching Act 1828
• The Game Act 1831
• The Night Poaching Act 1844
• The Poaching Prevention Act 1862
• The Gun Licence Act
• The Pistols Act 1903
• The Firearms Act 1920
• The Firearms and Imitation Firearms Act 1933
• The Firearms Act 1934
• The Firearms Act 1936
• The Firearms Act 1937
• The Firearms Act 1965
• The Firearms Act 1968
• The Firearms Act 1969
• The Firearms Rules 1969
• The Firearms Act 1982
• The Crossbows Act 1987
• The Criminal Justice Order 1988
• The Firearms Act 1988
• The Firearms Rules 1989
• The Firearms Act Regulations 1992
• The Firearms Act 1992
• The Firearms Act 1993
• The Firearms Rules 1993
• The Firearms Act 1994
• The Firearms Act 1997
• The Firearms Act 1997
• The Firearms Order 1997
• The Firearms Rules 1998
• Criminal Justice Act 2003
• The Firearms Commencement Order 2004
• Firearms Regulations 2005
• The Firearms Order 2005
• The Firearms Rules 2005
• The Violent Crime Reduction Act 2006 Part 2
• The Firearms Regulations 2010
• The Firearms Rules 2013
• The Firearms Rules 2013
• The Firearms Regulations 2015