{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/firearms-act-1937/section-22",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/firearms-act-1937/section-22.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/Edw8and1Geo6/1/12",
  "legislation_title": "Firearms Act 1937",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/firearms-act-1937",
  "path": "section/22",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "22",
  "heading": "Penalty for possessing firearms with intent to injure",
  "text": "If any person has in his possession any firearm or ammunition with intent by means thereof to endanger life or cause serious injury to property, or to enable any other person by means thereof to endanger life or cause serious injury to property, he shall, whether any injury to person or property has been caused or not,\nbe guilty of felony and, on conviction thereof on indictment, shall be liable to penal servitude for a term not exceeding fourteen years.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Edw8and1Geo6/1/12/section/22",
    "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."
}