Violence Definitions Firearm

Question 1

Firearm

Answer 1

Anything from which any shot, bullet, missile, or other projectile can be discharged by force of explosive.

Question 2

Air gun

Answer 2

Any weapon from which, by the use of gas or compressed air (and not by force of explosive), any shot, bullet, missile, or other projectile can be discharged.

Question 3

Discharge

Answer 3

To fire or shoot.

Question 4

Explosive

Answer 4

(a) Means any substance or mixture or combination of substances which in its normal state is capable either of decomposition at such rapid rate as to result in an explosion or of
producing a pyrotechnic effect; and

(b) Without limiting paragraph (a) of this definition, includes gunpowder, nitroglycerine, dynamite, gun-cotton, blasting powder, fulminate of mercury or of other metals, coloured flares, fog signals, fuses, rockets, percussion caps, detonators, cartridges, and ammunition of all descriptions; and

(c) Without limiting paragraph (a) or paragraph (b) of this definition, includes any device, contrivance, or article, which uses any substance or mixture or combination of substances to which paragraph (a) or paragraph (b) of this definition applies as an integral part of it for the purposes of producing an explosion or a ballistic or pyrotechnic effect; but does not include a firearm; and

(d) Does not include any firework as defined in section 2 of the Hazardous Substances and New
Organisms Act 1996.
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Question 5

Injurious substance

Answer 5

A range of things capable of causing harm to people.

Question 6

Injurious substance

Answer 6

A range of things capable of causing harm to people.