§ Mr. McFallTo ask the Secretary of State for Scotland if he will introduce legislation to make it illegal to distribute magazines depicting illegal and offensive weapons.
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§ Lord James Douglas-HamiltonIt is an offence, under section 141 of the Criminal Justice Act 1988, to offer for sale or to expose or possess for the purpose of sale any weapons of a description specified by statutory instrument. We are willing to consider expanding the list of weapons so specified if we are notified of additional items that have no legitimate uses and can be clearly defined in law.
We have no plans at present to prohibit all advertising of illegal or offensive weapons or the distribution of such advertisements.