Originally Posted by skp20040:
“The guy in court today has it listed as one of the of the charges so one assumes it does.”
“The guy in court today has it listed as one of the of the charges so one assumes it does.”
Think I've found it-
http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1968/27/section/57
57 Interpretation.
(1)In this Act, the expression “firearm” means a lethal barrelled weapon of any description from which any shot, bullet or other missile can be discharged and includes—
(a)any prohibited weapon, whether it is such a lethal weapon as aforesaid or not; and
(b)any component part of such a lethal or prohibited weapon; and
(c)any accessory to any such weapon designed or adapted to diminish the noise or flash caused by firing the weapon;
and so much of section 1 of this Act as excludes any description of firearm from the category of firearms to which that section applies shall be construed as also excluding component parts of, and accessories to, firearms of that description.
Although having read it a few times, not entirely sure the explanaition explains it to this ordinary man. But (c) looks like it's treated as a seperate 'firearm' and offence. Also probably explains why we had some debate as to whether adding a compensator to a pistol would have involved extra paperwork. Then the '97 Act came along and it became rather redundant..



