A Bill to prohibit the keeping of pump action firearms in homes, with exemptions for professional pest controllers and farmers; to make provision about medical requirements for holders of firearms certificates; to make provision about the disclosure of mental health concerns relating to holders of firearms certificates; to extend offences of stirring up hatred to cover hatred on the basis of sex or gender; to make motivation by misogyny an aggravating factor in sentencing for violent crimes; and for connected purposes.
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This Bill would stop households from keeping pump-action firearms, with exemptions for professional pest controllers and farmers. It also introduces medical requirements and the disclosure of mental health concerns for firearms certificate holders, and extends hate crime laws to cover hatred based on sex or gender, including making misogyny an aggravating factor in violent crime sentencing.
The Bill is currently at the 2nd Reading in the House of Commons (originating in the Commons). It completed the 1st Reading on 2 March 2022 and the 2nd Reading on 6 May 2022; if advanced, it would proceed to committee and subsequent readings.
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2 Mar 2022
6 May 2022
The 2021-2022 session of Parliament has prorogued and this Bill will make no further progress.
No recorded votes for this bill yet.
