File 1355/1917 Pt 2 'Arms Traffic: - The Control of Firearms' [‎441r] (39/100)

M emo f rom Board _qf_Tra<ie .let ter In C. 9043 .
ArniQ and Acimunition ar a auhi^^f -i
prohibition of jax-nn-r-t- suo^ 0 w t to a formal
Snd?L^rL*iS«r® )r ? n,s ^ t ^« i ^ d o» 0 tK sxportsd
U»ne?al°Licenoe f^T lttuni “ 0n9 therefor/ and an Open
i-h^r 1 i . na9 Jast Deen issued.by virtue of which
they - and Industrial Explosives - maybe exported to
British Possessions and Protectorates.
Frencn hossessione and Protectorates.
United States of America.
South America.
Japan and Korea.
Asiatic Russia.*
France, Belgium, Spain, Portugal, (ireeoe, Italy
Serbia, Roumania, Worway, Sweden, De.on.arlc
Holland and Switzerland. *
^Exportation permitted under the terms of this
;pen general Licence to certain destinations in Africa is
Ar + V^l r g ^ ded aa ^ sub J eit t0 Provisions 0 ?
Art 1 „ o, Chapter 3 of the Arms Convention.
3. There are three other classes which in general
are susceptible of either warlike or unwarlike use :
(a) Sporting Rifles.
(b) Revolvers and Pistols.
(c) Munitions for the foregoing weapons.
"Tien Sporting Rifles or rifle ammunition are of a
caxipre not greater than . l3 inchea and revolvers or
revoler ammunition are of a calibre not greater than
*33 inches, specific licences wilj. be freely granted for
their export to destinations not included in the Zones
specified in Chapter 3 of the Arms Convention.
When Sporting Rifles or Revolvers are of more than
the above mentioned calibre, applications for licences to
export up to about 13 Sporting Rifles or 50 Revolvers or
Pistols to extra-zone destinations mentioned in the board's
General Licence aoove will normally be granted without
hesitation, provided that such consignments do not appear
likely to be made with undue frequency to any one area.
cases the Board would propose, subject to
the representative authorities in this
In some
the approval of
country and of the country of residence of tne consignee,
to issue to particular approved firms in the United Kingdom
licences for the export of larger quantities of Sporting
Rifles or Revolvers to particular approved dealers in the
various parts of the British Empire or foreign countries
in question.
'me Board are not yet in a position to determine
up to what quantitative limit they will consider themselves
justified in.licensing the export of Ammunition alleged
to oe intended for use with Sporting Rifles or Revolvers
and