HC Deb 24 July 1968 vol 769 c147W
127. Mr. Sandys

asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will state the number of indictable offences involving firearms in each of the years 1964, 1965, 1966 and 1967.

Mr. Elystan Morgan

The numbers of indictable offences involving firearms known to the police in England and Wales were:

1964 … … … 731
1965 … … … 1,140
1966 … … … 1,511
1967 … … … 2,337

The figures include offences in which the firearm was not actually fired, or presented at, or used for striking, the victim.