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.
This bill would ban keeping pump-action firearms in private homes, with exceptions for professional pest controllers and farmers who need them for work. It also tightens medical rules for firearms certificates and requires disclosure of relevant mental health concerns, and it expands hate crime law to cover misogyny and makes misogynistic motives an aggravating factor in violent crime sentencing.
The bill is at the second reading in the House of Commons. If it advances, it would move to committee stage in the Commons and then to the House of Lords for consideration.
Generated 21 February 2026
The 2021-2022 session of Parliament has prorogued and this Bill will make no further progress.
No recorded votes for this bill yet.
