{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/firearms-act-1937/section-16",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/firearms-act-1937/section-16.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/Edw8and1Geo6/1/12",
  "legislation_title": "Firearms Act 1937",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/firearms-act-1937",
  "path": "section/16",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "16",
  "heading": "Firearms and ammunition to which Part I applies",
  "text": "(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—\n(a) a smooth bore gun having a barrel not less than twenty inches in length;\n(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.\n(2) This Part of this Act applies to all ammunition as defined in section thirty-two of this Act, except the following articles, namely—\n(a) cartridges containing five or more shot, none of which exceeds nine twenty-fifths of an inch in diameter;\n(b) ammunition for an air gun or air rifle or air pistol;\n(c) blank cartridges not exceeding one inch in diameter.\n(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.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
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  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Edw8and1Geo6/1/12/section/16",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T11:34:41.618363+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}