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Arms Bill

Further offences and firearms prohibition orders - Offences relating to manufacturing and assembling arms items

269: Assembling restricted firearm

You could also call this:

"Assembling a restricted firearm without a good reason is against the law"

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You could be in trouble if you assemble a restricted firearm without a good reason. You could go to prison for up to 7 years if you do this. You could also be in trouble if you change a standard firearm into a restricted one. If you have a special licence to have a restricted firearm, this rule does not apply to you. You must have a permit to have the specific restricted firearm. This permit must be part of your firearms licence. You must follow these rules to avoid getting in trouble with the law. The law says you need a good reason to assemble a restricted firearm. You need a special licence and permit to have one.

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Part 6Further offences and firearms prohibition orders
Offences relating to manufacturing and assembling arms items

269Assembling restricted firearm

  1. A person commits an offence and is liable on conviction to imprisonment for a term not exceeding 7 years if the person, without reasonable excuse,—

  2. assembles a restricted firearm; or
    1. converts a standard firearm into a restricted firearm.

      1. However, subsection (1) does not apply if—

      2. the person holds a firearms licence that bears an endorsement permitting them to possess a restricted firearm; and
        1. the endorsement has been made specific to the restricted firearm by the issue of a permit to possess the restricted firearm.