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- In the United Kingdom, access by the general public to firearms is subject to some of the strictest control measures in the world. However, fulfilment of the criteria and requirements as laid out by the laws results in the vast majority of firearm licence applications being approved. Laws differ slightly in Northern Ireland due to Northern Ireland having its own firearms legislation. Concerns have been raised over the availability of illegal firearms. Members of the public may own sporting rifles and shotguns, subject to licensing. However, handguns have been banned in Great Britain since the Dunblane school massacre in 1996. Section 5 handguns are permitted with ‘good reason’. One such good reason is Humane Animal Dispatch (HAD), for example a road traffic accident (RTA) with a deer. In order to stop suffering to a deer after an RTA, the deer needs to be humanely dispatched. Large calibre rifle ammunition often ricochets, therefore a hand gun is a suitable choice due to lower velocities and therefore the projectile remaining within the carcass. Police forces often add licence restrictions such as one or two round capacity only under HAD. Handguns are permitted in Northern Ireland, Channel Islands and the Isle of Man which have their own legislation. There have only been five fatal mass shootings carried out by a civilian in the entire history of Great Britain, one of which took place in Hungerford on 19 August 1987, one taking place in Monkseaton on 30 April 1989, Dunblane, the Cumbria shootings in June 2010 and a shooting in Plymouth in August 2021. Police in Great Britain are not routinely armed. Fatal shootings of police are extremely rare; there were three fatal police shootings in England and Wales in the eleven-year period from 2000 to 2011. Specially trained armed response units are available to deal with firearms incidents, and as of 31 March 2017 there were 6,278 armed officers serving in territorial police forces in England and Wales. (en)
- イギリスの銃規制（イギリスのじゅうきせい）は、銃の脅威からどのように公共の安全を保障することができるか、そしてどのように銃による死傷事件を防げるかという観点に主眼を置いた内容となっている。英国には米国の全米ライフル協会 (NRA) のような強力な圧力団体が存在しないため、銃規制賛成派と銃の所持賛成派による活発な議論もなく、英国の銃規制は日本と同じく世界でも厳しい部類である。なお銃器不法所持の罰則は、日本は1年以上10年以下の懲役だが英国は5年以上の懲役で罰金の上限なしと日本よりも厳しい。一方で、伝統的にキツネ狩りなどのスポーツハンティングや射撃競技が盛んであるため取得に関しては一定の配慮がなされている。 オーストラリアやニュージーランドなど英連邦諸国はイギリスの法制度を参考にしているため、銃規制に関しても類似点が多い。 (ja)
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