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Control on transport of crossbows between states has increased to prevent unauthorised use of imported crossbows. [1] Recent changes to laws in Western Australia to prohibit crossbow ownership require applications to legally possess a crossbow by July 2, 2011, before they became illegal to possess and sporting usage is only legal for people ...
The Crossbows Act 1987 is an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom, which is still in force. The Act, as amended, controls the possession of crossbows by people under the age of eighteen throughout the whole of the United Kingdom. It gained royal assent on 15 May 1987, and came into force two months later.
Exemptions are provided for weapons over 100 years old from the time of the offence [12] as well as crossbows and anything under the Firearms Act 1968. [9] Section 141(4) creates an offence of importation any weapon to which this section applies. [9] The list as it currently stands is:
In the United Kingdom, gun ownership is considered a privilege, not a right, [1] and access by the general public to firearms is subject to strict control measures. [2] Members of the public may own certain firearms for the purposes of sport shooting, recreation, hunting or occupational purposes. Possession is subject to licensing.
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Shooting sports is a group of competitive and recreational sporting activities involving proficiency tests of accuracy, precision and speed in shooting — the art of using ranged weapons, mainly small arms (firearms and airguns, in forms such as handguns, [1] rifles [2] and shotguns [3]) and bows/crossbows.
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21st-century hunting compound crossbow. A crossbow is a ranged weapon using an elastic launching device consisting of a bow-like assembly called a prod, mounted horizontally on a main frame called a tiller, which is hand-held in a similar fashion to the stock of a long gun. Crossbows shoot arrow-like projectiles called bolts or quarrels.