Gun ownership in Jersey

Request 716060664

1) Please provide an anonymised list of gun ownership in Jersey. Please list the number and type of gun(s) per individual and organise by parish. 

2) Please list the number of lapsed gun licences and the date on which they were followed up and action taken. 

Response

A

To provide the number and type of guns held by each individual would require a manual inspection of each certificate. The States of Jersey Police estimate that, to retrieve and extract the requested information for each individual would significantly exceed the time limit, as provided by Article 16(1) of the Freedom of Information (Jersey) Law 2011 and a response to this particular question is declined. The States of Jersey Police are however able to provide the following information:

As of 4th June 2025, the number of active licences was 1,096, with the number of firearms and component parts totalling 8,243. This information is broken down by each parish in the attached documents.

​Table 1.pdf

Table 2.pdf

B

The total number of lapsed firearms licensed is 33. The States of Jersey Police does not hold further information on these as the matter is administered by the relevant parish, although a number of these are likely to involve current processing of renewal documents. The applicant is advised to make a separate request to the parishes in writing should this information be required to

FOI@comite.je

Or by post to: 

Parish FOI, East Wing, RJA & HS, Trinity, JE3 5JP

You can also find out more about making an FOI request to the parishes at 

How to Make an FOI Request | Comité des Connétables (comite.je)​

Article applied

​Article 16 - A scheduled public authority may refuse to supply information if cost excessive

(1) A scheduled public authority that has been requested to supply information may refuse to supply the information if it estimates that the cost of doing so would exceed an amount determined in the manner prescribed by Regulations. ​