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Firearms licensing: specifications for deactivated weapons

Technical specifications for deactivated weapons.

• From: Home Office
• Published: 15 January 2025

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New technical specifications for deactivated weapons came into force on 8 April 2016. The aim was to set common standards which would render deactivated weapons irreversibly inoperable. The current deactivation standards reflect the revised standards that came into force from 28 June 2018 following a review of the Implementing regulation 2015/2403 specifications.

Published 15 January 2025