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Question to the Home Office:
To ask Her Majesty’s Government how many licensed firearms there are in the UK broken down by police force area.
Answered by
Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon
Minister of State (Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office)
This question was answered on 8th June 2016
The table provided contains statistics on the number of licensed firearms and shotguns, by police force area, in England and Wales as at 31 March 2015.
At this time there was a total of 1.34 million licensed shotguns and 0.53 million licensed firearms.The Home Office does not centrally hold any estimates for unlicensed firearms.
Figures for Scotland and Northern Ireland are a matter for the devolved administrations.