Section 1 Firearms - MARS & Lever Release

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Dear Ministry of Justice,

Please could you let me know how many legally held manually actuated release system (MARS) & lever release firearms have been used in a crime in the UK in time frames below?

1) Number of recorded events ever?
2) Number of recorded events since they were banned in the Offensive Weapons Act 2019, which gained Royal Assent on the Thursday 16 May 2019 to the present day?

Yours faithfully,

Harry

Disclosure Team, Ministry of Justice

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Dear Disclosure Team,

Thank you for letting me know, please see the below.

Please could you let me know how many legally held manually actuated release system (MARS) & lever release firearms have been used in a crime in the UK in time frames below?

1) Number of recorded events ever?
2) Number of recorded events since they were banned in the Offensive Weapons Act 2019, which gained Royal Assent on the Thursday 16 May 2019 to the present day?

Yours faithfully,

Mr Harry Imlah

Statistics, Ministry of Justice

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Dear Mr Imlah,

 

In answer to your Freedom of Information request dated 15 December 2020 to
the Ministry of Justice, please find the attached reply.

 

Regards

On behalf of statistics enquiries

 

 

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