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.