PART IRegulation of Purchase, Possession, Manufacture and Sale of certain Firearms and Ammunition and other transactions

Savings and application

16Firearms and ammunition to which Part I applies

1

This Part of this Act applies to all firearms as defined in section thirty-two of this Act, except the following weapons and component parts thereof and accessories thereto, namely—

a

a smooth bore gun having a barrel not less than twenty inches in length;

b

an air gun, air rifle or air pistol not being of a type declared by rules made by a Secretary of State under this Act to be specially dangerous.

2

This Part of this Act applies to all ammunition as defined in section thirty-two of this Act, except the following articles, namely—

a

cartridges containing five or more shot, none of which exceeds nine twenty-fifths of an inch in diameter;

b

ammunition for an air gun or air rifle or air pistol;

c

blank cartridges not exceeding one inch in diameter.

3

For the purpose of this section the diameter of a cartridge shall be measured immediately in front of the rim or cannelure of the base of the cartridge.