HC Deb 27 March 1990 vol 170 c104W
Mr. Shersby

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will seek to introduce legislation to prohibit the sale and ownership of replica firearms.

Mr. Peter Lloyd

Under the Firearms Act 1982, the sale and possession of replica firearms which can be readily converted to fire live ammunition are subject to the same level of stringent control as that imposed on real firearms by the Firearms Acts 1968 and 1988. We have no plans to control the sale and possession of imitation firearms which cannot be so converted.