Newsgroups: talk.politics.guns From: [j--hn--y] at [tardis.ed.ac.uk] (John Pate) Subject: Gun owner stat for England and Wales Date: Wed, 5 Oct 1994 13:37:35 GMT Firearm Certificate Statistics, England and Wales, 1993 Official Home Office Figures 19 August 1994 year end of 31 December. Main Points: - At the end of 1993, 138,400 firearm certificates were on issue, an increase of one per cent on the 136,800 on issue at the end of 1992. - 1.1 per cent of 10,900 applications for new firearm certificates were refused, a smaller proportion than in previous years. - 691,100 shot gun certificates were on issue at the end of 1993. This is the lowest number since 1971, and more than 20 per cent fewer than the 882,000 on issue in 1988. - 1.4 per cent of new applications for shot guns certificates were refused. - 2,440 dealers were registered to sell firearms in 1993, 60 more than in 1992. - Firearms permits granted to visitors covered about 2,300 persons, with a further 5,300 covered by visitors shot gun permits. Firearm certificates: England and Wales: number on issue at 31 December 1968 216,300 1971 190,600 1974 185,900 1979 169,600 1980 168,000 1981 164,900 1982 162,700 1983 159,800 1984 160,300 1985 160,400 1986 160,300 1987 159,000 1988 155,400 1989 149,400 1990 142,500 1991 138,600 1992 136,800 1993 138,400 Shot gun certificates: England and Wales: number on issue at 31 December 1971 715,500 1974 767,000 1979 782,100 1980 781,900 1981 785,200 1982 780,600 1983 783,400 1984 798,400 1985 819,300 1986 841,000 1987 861,300 1988 882,000 1989 865,100 1990 802,300 1991 724,600 * 1992 689,200 1993 681,100 * this drop includes an adjustment of about 17,000 due to previous over-recording. Dealer registrations: England and Wales: number registered at 31 December 1988 2,610 1989 2,410 1990 2,480 1991 2,560 1992 2,380 1993 2,440 NOTE: Although each weapon is individually registered to its owner, no centralised numbers are kept or collated and the number of actual weapons involved is not known by the Home Office. (so don't bother asking!) I'll type in some more stuff and put it up on my Web pages sometime I expect. Shoot straight. -- Johnny | tel: Edinburgh 229 7870 | For World Wide Webbers check out: +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++|+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ John Pate <[j--hn--y] at [tardis.ed.ac.uk]> | http://www.tardis.ed.ac.uk/~johnny =============================================================================