Increased Regulation within Reenactment

1
Increased Regulation within Re-enactment

• Violent Crime Reduction Bill

2
What is the VCR Bill?

• Legislation proposed by Government to curb
  Violent Crime in the areas of
• Part 1 Alcohol related violence and disorder
• Part 2 Weapons etc.
• Part 3 Miscellaneous (including sports-related
  disorder)

3
Part 2 Weapons etc.

• Firearms, ammunition etc.
• Using someone to mind a weapon
• Penalties etc. for offence under s.24
• Age limits for purchase etc. of air weapons
• Firing an air weapon beyond premises
• Restriction on sale and purchase of primers
• Restriction on sale and purchase of ammunition
  loading presses

4
Part 2 Weapons etc.

• Imitation firearms
• Manufacture, import and sale of realistic
  imitation firearms
• Specification for imitation firearms
• Supplying imitation firearms to minors
• Increase of maximum sentence for possessing an
  imitation firearm

5
Part 2 Weapons etc.

• Other weapons
• Sale etc. of knives and other weapons
• Power to search school pupils for weapons
• Supplemental provisions
• Supplemental provisions for Part 2

6
How are we effected?

• Clause 28 Restriction on sale and purchase of
  primers
• Clause 29 Restriction on sale and purchase of
  ammunition loading presses
• Clause 30 Manufacture, import and sale of
  realistic imitation firearms
• Clause 32 Supplying imitation firearms to
  minors
• Clause 34 Sale etc. of knives and other weapons

7
Clause 28 Restriction on sale and purchase of
primers

• Summary
• Firearms Certificate (FAC) required to purchase
  primers, or anything containing primers.
• What does it mean for us?
• FAC needed to purchase blank ammunition of any
  kind!

8
Clause 29 Restriction on sale and purchase of
ammunition loading presses

• Summary
• Firearms Certificate (FAC) required to purchase
  ammunition loading presses
• What does it mean for us?
• Home-made inert ammunition will only be possible
  by people with an FAC.

9
Clause 30 Manufacture, import and sale of
realistic imitation firearms

• Summary
• No manufacturing, importing or selling of
  realistic imitation firearms.
• There are exceptions and exemptions!
• Clause 31 allows for the Secretary of State to
  lay down specifications for imitation weapons to
  meet (e.g. made out of pink foam!).

10
Clause 30 Manufacture, import and sale of
realistic imitation firearms. Cont

• What does it mean for us?
• Difficulties with acquiring new
• Blank Firing Stens
• Blank Firing Pistols
• Replica Vickers K Guns
• Deacs??
• But we can keep what we have got!

11
Clause 32 Supplying imitation firearms to minors

• Summary
• No sales to under eighteens (no exemptions).
• What does it mean for us?
• Recruits will have to wait until they reach
  eighteen before they can come along and have
  their own weapons, unless we loan to them.

12
Clause 34 Sale etc. of knives and other weapons

• Summary
• No sales to under eighteens (no exemptions).
• What does it mean for us?
• Recruits will have to wait until they reach
  eighteen before they can come along and have
  their own weapons, unless we loan to them which
  we can for theatrical purposes.

13
Light at the end of the tunnel?

• Exemptions
• Historical re-enactments
• Defined bona-fide organisations
• Definition of Realistic Imitation Firearms
• Excludes Deactivated Weapons

14
Discuss