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FIREARM CERTIFICATES STATISTICS, SCOTLAND, 2003
Firearm certificates : New applications (granted and refused) and certificates on issue at 31 December, 1994-2003 Scotland | Table 1 |
Number |
Year | Applications for new firearm certificate | Firearm certificates on issue at 31 December (1) (2) |
Granted | Refused |
1994 | 1,991 | 14 | 31,952 |
1995 | 1,889 | 9 | 32,317 |
1996 | 1,600 | 22 | 32,053 |
1997 | 1,291 | 13 | 31,094 |
1998 | 962 | 20 | 31,072 |
1999 | 857 | 12 | 30,536 |
2000 | 1,152 | 10 | 28,778 |
2001 | 1,308 | 15 | 27,302 |
2002 | 1,214 | 17 | 26,212 |
2003 | 1,023 | 14 | 26,605 |
(1) Grampian police force, up to and including 1998, relied upon a manual auditing system. The year 1999 was the first to be monitored by a dedicated firearms licensing computer and the figures produced for the annual return in January 2000 (for the year 1999) showed serious differences when compared with the previously submitted figures for 1998. The previously produced manual figures relied upon an arithmetical calculation which it is now clear, over the course of many years, produced increasingly inaccurate figures.
(2) In 2001, Lothian & Borders implemented a fully computer-generated firearms certificates statistical return. This resulted in the number of firearm certificates, shotgun certiciates (on issue) and registered firearms dealers at 31 December 2001 being recorded as very slightly lower than expected based on the equivalent figures recorded on 31 December 2000.
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