Importation of Small Arms.

HC Deb 08 April 1913 vol 51 c1013W

Mr. DUNDAS WHITE

asked how many small arms and how many barrels for making up into small arms were imported into Scottish ports from British possessions and foreign countries during the year 1912?

Mr. BUXTON

The total imports of small arms into Scottish ports in 1912 were as follows:—

	Number.
Sporting guns, carbines and rifles	4,560
Air guns and rifles of all sorts	5,706
Revolvers and pistols	546

There were no importations into Scottish ports of "tubes to be made into barrels of firearms" or of other parts of small arms. With the exception of fourteen sporting weapons, all the above small arms were imported from foreign countries.