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.
House of Commons
Luke PollardLabour (Co-op)
1 November 2023
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The Firearms and Hate Crime Bill tightens gun rules and hate crime protections. It would ban keeping pump-action firearms in homes (with exemptions for licensed pest controllers and farmers), require medical and mental health checks for firearms certificate holders, and widen hate crime laws to cover sex and gender, including misogyny as an aggravating factor in violent-crime sentencing. It is currently at the second reading in the House of Commons.
The bill has completed its first reading (July 2022) and is now at the second reading in the House of Commons.
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20 Jul 2022
The 2022-2023 session of Parliament has prorogued and this Bill will make no further progress.
No recorded votes for this bill yet.
