§ 48. Mr. Skeetasked the Secretary of State for the Home Department (1) if he will seek to change the law to enable antique dealers to hold on their premises vintage guns without a licence, provided that they could not be fired without certain work being done on them to make them serviceable;
(2) if he will list the provisions of the law relating to the holding by a citizen upon his premises of old-fashioned guns manufactured before 1880;
(3) if he will seek powers to remove the need for a licence to hold on premises flintlock guns for decorative purposes which could only be rendered serviceable by unobstructing the barrel.
§ Mr. SharplesSection 58(2) of the Firearms Act, 1968, exempts from the provisions of the Act antique firearms which are sold, transferred, purchased, acquired or possessed as curiosities or ornaments. My right hon. Friend has at present no proposals for amending the law relating to antique firearms, but the working of the firearms law as a whole is under review.