{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/firearms-dangerous-air-weapons-rules-1969/article-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/firearms-dangerous-air-weapons-rules-1969/article-2.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1969/47",
  "legislation_title": "The Firearms (Dangerous Air Weapons) Rules 1969",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/firearms-dangerous-air-weapons-rules-1969",
  "path": "article/2",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "(1) Subject to paragraph (2) below, Rule 3 of these Rules applies to an air weapon (that is to say, an air rifle, air gun or air pistol) capable of discharging a missile so that the missile has, on being discharged from the muzzle of the weapon, kinetic energy in excess, in the case of an air pistol, of 6 ft. lb. or, in the case of an air weapon other than an air pistol, of 12 ft. lb.\n(2) Rule 3 of these Rules does not apply to a weapon designed for use only when submerged in water.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1969/47/article/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T23:16:01.912927+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."
}