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This guidance summarises the requirements, controls and sanctions that Border Force applies to firearms and offensive weapons when they are imported into the UK.
The laws on selling, buying and carrying a knife or weapon depend on the type of knife or weapon, your age and your circumstances.
Dstl ensures the UK armed forces have the required weapons capability through research, development and demonstration of advances in science and technology.
Explains the law behind carrying an article with a blade or point or an offensive weapon in a public place.
British soldiers have successful trialled for the first time a game-changing weapon that can take down a swarm of drones using radio waves for less than the cost of a pack of mince pies.
For more than 70 years, AWE has supported the UK Government’s nuclear defence strategy and Continuous At Sea Deterrence (CASD). AWE is an executive non-departmental public body, sponsored by the Ministry of Defence .
Licensing guidance, good practice on firearms law, and forms for applying for approvals under the law.
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