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Arms Bill

Further offences and firearms prohibition orders - Offences relating to selling or supplying firearms, etc

264: Purchasing arms items intending to unlawfully sell or supply

You could also call this:

"Buying guns to sell or give to someone who can't have them is against the law"

Illustration for Arms Bill

You could commit an offence if you buy an arms item intending to sell or give it to someone who is not allowed to have it. If you are not allowed to have an arms item, you could also commit an offence if you ask someone with a firearms licence to buy one for you. You could go to prison for up to 7 years if you commit one of these offences.

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Part 6Further offences and firearms prohibition orders
Offences relating to selling or supplying firearms, etc

264Purchasing arms items intending to unlawfully sell or supply

  1. A person commits an offence if the person purchases or acquires, or enters into a contract or an arrangement to purchase or acquire, an arms item intending to sell or otherwise supply the arms item to another person who is not lawfully entitled to possess the arms item.

  2. A person who is not lawfully entitled to possess an arms item (A) commits an offence if A enters into a contract or an arrangement, or arrives at an understanding, with the holder of a firearms licence or business licence (B) for the purchase or acquisition of an arms item by B on behalf of A.

  3. A person who commits an offence against subsection (1) or (2) is liable on conviction to a term of imprisonment for a term not exceeding 7 years.