Possession of Firearm in UK Law

  • R v Avis and Others
  • R v Rehman; R v Wood
    • Court of Appeal (Criminal Division)
    • 18 Julio 2005
    ... ... out a series of circumstances in which it is unlawful to be in possession of, or purchase, or acquire, or manufacture, or sell, or transfer a list ... one which is selected for falling within section 51A is (aba): any firearm which either has a barrel less than 30 centimetres in length or is less ... ...
  • Warner v Metropolitan Police Commissioner; R v Warner
    • House of Lords
    • 02 Mayo 1968
    ... ... 1967 on a charge that on 18th November 1966 he had in his possession a substance specified in the Schedule to the Drugs (Prevention of Misuse) ... The words were that "any person who carries … any firearm not being a firearm which he is duly licensed to carry … shall be guilty ... ...
  • Hinds et Al v The Queen; and Director of Public Prosecutions v Jackson
    • Privy Council
    • 28 Julio 1975
    ... ... for certain specified offences relating to the unauthorised possession, acquisition or disposal of firearm or ammunition, the Gun Court should ... ...
  • R v Jogee
  • R v Rahman (Islamur) and Others
    • House of Lords
    • 02 Julio 2008
    ... ... Possession of the gun was not of itself conclusive, but it was evidence from which ... The plan in that case had been to discharge a firearm near the victim so as to frighten him, and in the event it had been fired ... ...
  • R v Keane
    ... ... justified non-disclosure of material in the prosecution's possession; and that, in the circumstances, the prosecution should have made an ex ... He also pleaded guilty on a second indictment to possessing a firearm without a certificate. He was sentenced to consecutive sentences of three ... ...
  • R v Michael Chang
    • Court of Appeal (Criminal Division)
    • 07 Abril 2022
    ... ... of Cambridgeshire Constabulary, changed his plea to guilty to possession of a prohibited weapon contrary to section 5(1)(b) of the Firearms Act ... under section 26A of the Act that he is required to purchase a firearm or ammunition for his own use in his capacity as such, be entitled without ... ...
  • R v Bentham (Peter)
    • House of Lords
    • 10 Marzo 2005
    ... ... give the impression that he has a gun, be held to have in his possession an imitation firearm within the meaning of section 17(2) of the Firearms ... ...
  • R v Kelt
    • Court of Appeal (Criminal Division)
    • 02 Mayo 1977
    ... ... 18 of the Firearms Act 1968, of the offence of having with him a firearm with intent to commit an indictable offence. He submits through Mr ... be wrong, that "having with him" is to be distinguished from "possession" and that the learned Judge in summing up the case to the jury failed to ... ...
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