Weapons and Firearms in UK Law
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R v Avis and Others
... ... or the verdict of a jury, of various offences against the Firearms Act 1968 as amended. The appeals have been listed and heard together in ... Those convicted of possessing or distributing prohibited weapons or ammunition have risen from 212 in 1991 to 1002 in 1996. This accords ... ...
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R v Rehman; R v Wood
... ... in respect of offences committed contrary to section 5 of the Firearms Act 1968 ("the Firearms Act"). The provisions were inserted into the ... 4 The weapons, with which we are concerned, are ones in relation to which Parliament by ... ...
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R v Wilkinson and Others
... ... Sentencing courts must address the fact that too many lethal weapons are too readily available: too many are carried: too many are used, always ... for a variety of offences taking account of the ambit of the Firearms Act 1968, as amended by the wide-ranging, then recent statutory provisions ... ...
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Sean Alexander v The Public Prosecutor's Office, Marseille District Court of First Instance, France
... ... , in the course of 2015 and until April 2016, the purchase of weapons, weapon components and ammunition in the south of France (counties of Var ... within category B to persons without a licence to possess firearms". Offences described and punishable under articles L.311–2, L.312\xE2" ... ...
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R v Peter Ralphs
... ... of a prohibited weapon, contrary to section 5(1)(a) of the Firearms Act 1968, namely a 9mm Browning calibre Ingram machine gun; (ii) ... Initially he said he never touched any of the weapons or the ammunition, but he later stated that these were weapons involving a ... ...
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R v Simpson (Calvin)
... ... of fact been conveniently defined in the Restriction of Offensive Weapons Act 1959 as "any knife which has a blade which opens automatically by hand ... to the person, includes bludgeons, clubs, bayonets, daggers, firearms other than those commonly used for gaming, coshes and knuckledisters. It ... ...
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R v Poulton (Sarah Jane); R v Celaire (Mario Rolando)
... ... authorities, that the sentence passed in relation to the offensive weapons offence was approximately double what it ought properly to have been. So ... to ask the sort of questions posed by this Court in relation to firearms in Avis [1998] 2 Cr App R(S) 178, that is to say, to consider the nature ... ...
- R v Bentham
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Attorney General's Reference (No. 2 of 1989)
... ... hold-up of a security or a Post Office van, should be 15 years if firearms were carried and no serious injury done. It follows therefore that the ... , in the sense of going into the banks carrying firearms or other weapons, had criminal records. Some had bad criminal records and others not so ... ...
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R v Kelt
... ... Kelt appeals against his conviction under section 18 of the Firearms Act 1968, of the offence of having with him a firearm with intent to ... the marginal note reads "Prohibition of the Carrying of Offensive Weapons" ... 12It used to be thought that one could have no regard to marginal ... ...
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