{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/violent-crime-reduction-act-2006-specification-for-imitation-firearms-regulations-2011/regulation-6",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/violent-crime-reduction-act-2006-specification-for-imitation-firearms-regulations-2011/regulation-6.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2011/1754",
  "legislation_title": "The Violent Crime Reduction Act 2006 (Specification for Imitation Firearms) Regulations 2011",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/violent-crime-reduction-act-2006-specification-for-imitation-firearms-regulations-2011",
  "path": "regulation/6",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "6",
  "heading": "Specifications for imitation firearms",
  "text": "The specifications referred to in Regulation 5 are that—\n(a) an imitation revolver must incorporate an inclusion cast into the dummy barrel and a separate inclusion cast into the cylinder which extends to fully obstruct all the dummy chambers;\n(b) the inclusions must be wholly made of a material which is at least as resistant to being cut, drilled, bored, ground (or any similar process) as sintered tungsten carbide in the range 1550-2000 HV 30;\n(c) the inclusions should be permanent and incapable of being knocked out without destroying the chamber or barrel;\n(d) the barrel inclusion must wholly block the dummy barrel and part of it must be incorporated into the rear of the dummy barrel;\n(e) the barrel inclusion must be intended to prevent removal of the dummy barrel, unless the frame of the firearm is rendered useless as a result or its integrity so compromised that it cannot be used to form the basis of a firearm without significant repair or addition;\n(f) the inclusions must be intended to prevent the creation of a hole through the dummy barrel or chamber along their axis; and\n(g) the revolver must vent the gasses produced on discharge at not less than 80 degrees from the axis of the dummy barrel.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2011/1754/regulation/6",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T02:01:24.647980+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."
}