Repeal the ban on ownership of handguns, and include personal protection.

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Popularity

This petition has 2,001 signatures in total, with signatories from 587 constituencies. That makes it the 5,631st most popular petition of all time.

Geography

This petition has a Diversity Rating of 58% (low) and a Local Issue Rating of 35% (high).

Signatures by Constituency

• 16 - South Dorset
• 16 - Bexleyheath and Crayford
• 14 - Wentworth and Dearne
• 13 - Gainsborough
• 12 - Waveney
• 11 - Thurrock
• 9 - Erith and Thamesmead
• 9 - North Devon
• 9 - Dewsbury
• 9 - Dover
• 9 - North Herefordshire
• 9 - North Swindon
• 9 - Brigg and Goole
• 9 - Bishop Auckland
• 9 - Camborne and Redruth
• 9 - Ashfield
• 9 - Sittingbourne and Sheppey
• 9 - South East Cornwall
• 9 - Southampton, Itchen
• 9 - Stoke-on-Trent North
• 8 - Merthyr Tydfil and Rhymney
• 8 - Bolsover
• 8 - Hastings and Rye
• 8 - Normanton, Pontefract and Castleford
• 8 - Doncaster Central
• 8 - Devizes
• 8 - Keighley
• 8 - Birmingham, Yardley
• 8 - Peterborough
• 8 - Wellingborough
• 7 - South Shields
• 7 - Sheffield, Brightside and Hillsborough
• 7 - Cleethorpes
• 7 - Chippenham
• 7 - Chesterfield
• 7 - Broxtowe
• 7 - Rhondda
• 7 - North Durham
• 7 - York Central
• 7 - Rugby
• 7 - Washington and Sunderland West
• 7 - Isle of Wight
• 7 - Rochford and Southend East
• 7 - West Dorset
• 7 - Hexham
• 7 - Leigh
• 7 - Hartlepool
• 7 - Grantham and Stamford
• 7 - Gateshead
• 7 - South West Wiltshire
• 7 - South Swindon
• 7 - East Yorkshire
• 7 - Bassetlaw
• 7 - Boston and Skegness
• 7 - Bournemouth West
• 7 - Clwyd South
• 7 - Blackley and Broughton
• 7 - Rayleigh and Wickford
• 6 - Dumfries and Galloway
• 6 - Blaenau Gwent
• 6 - Copeland
• 6 - Newton Abbot
• 6 - Burnley
• 6 - East Surrey
• 6 - Sunderland Central
• 6 - Sedgefield
• 6 - Chatham and Aylesford
• 6 - Ribble Valley
• 6 - North West Cambridgeshire
• 6 - Rotherham
• 6 - Rother Valley
• 6 - Folkestone and Hythe
• 6 - Corby
• 6 - Bosworth
• 6 - Walsall South
• 6 - St Austell and Newquay
• 6 - Lincoln
• 6 - Derbyshire Dales
• 6 - Mansfield
• 6 - Leicester West
• 6 - Bury North
• 6 - Milton Keynes North
• 6 - New Forest East
• 6 - Tamworth
• 6 - Jarrow
• 6 - Blyth Valley
• 5 - Denton and Reddish
• 5 - Old Bexley and Sidcup
• 5 - York Outer
• 5 - North Wiltshire
• 5 - Stockport
• 5 - Easington
• 5 - Erewash
• 5 - North West Leicestershire
• 5 - Doncaster North
• 5 - Lagan Valley
• 5 - Blaydon
• 5 - Barnsley East
• 5 - North Shropshire
• 5 - Blackpool North and Cleveleys
• 5 - Filton and Bradley Stoke
• 5 - Thirsk and Malton
• 5 - Ilford South
• 5 - Morecambe and Lunesdale
• 5 - Beverley and Holderness
• 5 - Torbay
• 5 - Weaver Vale
• 5 - Wakefield
• 5 - Maidstone and The Weald
• 5 - Ludlow
• 5 - The Cotswolds
• 5 - Newcastle upon Tyne North
• 5 - Hornchurch and Upminster
• 5 - Hertford and Stortford
• 5 - Forest of Dean
• 5 - Gravesham
• 5 - Great Yarmouth
• 5 - Halton
• 5 - Worcester
• 5 - Wokingham
• 5 - Harlow
• 5 - Basingstoke
• 5 - Louth and Horncastle
• 5 - Monmouth
• 5 - Sefton Central
• 5 - Bradford East
• 5 - Rochester and Strood
• 5 - Swansea East
• 5 - Gower
• 5 - Canterbury
• 5 - Bolton South East
• 5 - Lanark and Hamilton East
• 5 - South Ribble
• 5 - Sheffield South East
• 5 - Bracknell
• 5 - Bury South
• 5 - Sleaford and North Hykeham
• 5 - Chorley
• 5 - Bradford South
• 5 - Brighton, Kemptown
• 5 - Vale of Clwyd
• 5 - Scarborough and Whitby
• 5 - Spelthorne
• 4 - Amber Valley
• 4 - Halifax
• 4 - Workington
• 4 - Brecon and Radnorshire
• 4 - Henley
• 4 - Wolverhampton South East
• 4 - Surrey Heath
• 4 - Carmarthen East and Dinefwr
• 4 - Havant
• 4 - Harrow West
• 4 - Basildon and Billericay
• 4 - Harrow East
• 4 - South West Devon
• 4 - Carshalton and Wallington
• 4 - Preseli Pembrokeshire
• 4 - High Peak
• 4 - Torridge and West Devon
• 4 - Totnes
• 4 - Warwick and Leamington
• 4 - Twickenham
• 4 - Mid Bedfordshire
• 4 - Somerton and Frome
• 4 - Wantage
• 4 - Lewisham East
• 4 - Skipton and Ripon
• 4 - Kingston upon Hull East
• 4 - Bermondsey and Old Southwark
• 4 - Weston-super-Mare
• 4 - Batley and Spen
• 4 - Newcastle-under-Lyme
• 4 - Sherwood
• 4 - West Lancashire
• 4 - Shipley
• 4 - Neath
• 4 - Berwick-upon-Tweed
• 4 - Newport West
• 4 - St Helens South and Whiston
• 4 - Barking
• 4 - Richmond (Yorks)
• 4 - Plymouth, Sutton and Devonport
• 4 - Strangford
• 4 - Rochdale
• 4 - Enfield North
• 4 - Romsey and Southampton North
• 4 - Faversham and Mid Kent
• 4 - Redditch
• 4 - Redcar
• 4 - Derby North
• 4 - Portsmouth South
• 4 - Edmonton
• 4 - Stevenage
• 4 - Crewe and Nantwich
• 4 - Reading East
• 4 - Blackpool South
• 4 - Orpington
• 4 - North West Durham
• 4 - Rutland and Melton
• 4 - Birmingham, Northfield
• 4 - Saffron Walden
• 4 - North Warwickshire
• 4 - Stalybridge and Hyde
• 4 - Guildford
• 4 - Gedling
• 4 - Fylde
• 4 - Worsley and Eccles South
• 4 - Wycombe
• 3 - Mid Dorset and North Poole
• 3 - Stockton North
• 3 - Truro and Falmouth
• 3 - North Somerset
• 3 - Southampton, Test
• 3 - Cardiff South and Penarth
• 3 - Uxbridge and South Ruislip
• 3 - South Norfolk
• 3 - Luton North
• 3 - Stroud
• 3 - Walsall North
• 3 - South Cambridgeshire
• 3 - Salisbury
• 3 - Makerfield
• 3 - Stone
• 3 - Manchester, Withington
• 3 - Ashford
• 3 - South Holland and The Deepings
• 3 - Stockton South
• 3 - Oldham West and Royton
• 3 - North East Cambridgeshire
• 3 - South Northamptonshire
• 3 - North East Bedfordshire
• 3 - Caerphilly
• 3 - North West Hampshire
• 3 - Vale of Glamorgan
• 3 - South West Norfolk
• 3 - Rossendale and Darwen
• 3 - Altrincham and Sale West
• 3 - Northampton North
• 3 - Newcastle upon Tyne Central
• 3 - North Thanet
• 3 - Nuneaton
• 3 - North Tyneside
• 3 - Richmond Park
• 3 - Aldridge-Brownhills
• 3 - Nottingham North
• 3 - Stoke-on-Trent South
• 3 - Morley and Outwood
• 3 - Shrewsbury and Atcham
• 3 - South West Surrey
• 3 - Bradford West
• 3 - Coventry North East
• 3 - Coventry North West
• 3 - Dagenham and Rainham
• 3 - Bognor Regis and Littlehampton
• 3 - Don Valley
• 3 - Berwickshire, Roxburgh and Selkirk
• 3 - Calder Valley
• 3 - East Devon
• 3 - Eastleigh
• 3 - Eddisbury
• 3 - Aldershot
• 3 - Elmet and Rothwell
• 3 - Yeovil
• 3 - Gosport
• 3 - Great Grimsby
• 3 - Greenwich and Woolwich
• 3 - Worthing West
• 3 - Dwyfor Meirionnydd
• 3 - Clacton
• 3 - City of Durham
• 3 - Newport East
• 3 - Brentwood and Ongar
• 3 - Bridgwater and West Somerset
• 3 - Bristol North West
• 3 - Buckingham
• 3 - Ochil and South Perthshire
• 3 - Central Devon
• 3 - Motherwell and Wishaw
• 3 - Charnwood
• 3 - Chelmsford
• 3 - Dudley South
• 3 - Chesham and Amersham
• 3 - Chichester
• 3 - Linlithgow and East Falkirk
• 3 - Kirkcaldy and Cowdenbeath
• 3 - Gordon
• 3 - City of Chester
• 3 - Witham
• 3 - Lichfield
• 3 - West Bromwich West
• 3 - Battersea
• 3 - Holborn and St Pancras
• 3 - Leeds Central
• 3 - Leeds East
• 3 - Houghton and Sunderland South
• 3 - Leeds North West
• 3 - Warrington North
• 3 - Birkenhead
• 3 - Knowsley
• 3 - Warley
• 3 - Wealden
• 3 - Bexhill and Battle
• 3 - Islington North
• 3 - Loughborough
• 3 - Liverpool, West Derby
• 3 - Hemsworth
• 3 - Liverpool, Walton
• 3 - Wimbledon
• 3 - Hereford and South Herefordshire
• 3 - Islington South and Finsbury
• 3 - Welwyn Hatfield
• 3 - Liverpool, Riverside
• 3 - Wigan
• 2 - Midlothian
• 2 - Tunbridge Wells
• 2 - Tynemouth
• 2 - Glasgow North West
• 2 - Moray
• 2 - Cynon Valley
• 2 - Thornbury and Yate
• 2 - South West Bedfordshire
• 2 - South Leicestershire
• 2 - Torfaen
• 2 - Tatton
• 2 - Clwyd West
• 2 - Llanelli
• 2 - Wrexham
• 2 - Ynys Môn
• 2 - Wallasey
• 2 - West Dunbartonshire
• 2 - West Aberdeenshire and Kincardine
• 2 - Stoke-on-Trent Central
• 2 - Ross, Skye and Lochaber
• 2 - South Staffordshire
• 2 - Walthamstow
• 2 - North East Fife
• 2 - Wansbeck
• 2 - Wirral West
• 2 - Aberconwy
• 2 - Glasgow North East
• 2 - East Antrim
• 2 - Stratford-on-Avon
• 2 - South Down
• 2 - Stourbridge
• 2 - Westminster North
• 2 - West Worcestershire
• 2 - Upper Bann
• 2 - Aberdeen North
• 2 - Belfast South
• 2 - Tewkesbury
• 2 - Carmarthen West and South Pembrokeshire
• 2 - Windsor
• 2 - Suffolk Coastal
• 2 - Stretford and Urmston
• 2 - Ceredigion
• 2 - Wyre and Preston North
• 2 - Wythenshawe and Sale East
• 2 - Montgomeryshire
• 2 - West Suffolk
• 2 - Airdrie and Shotts
• 2 - St Albans
• 2 - Edinburgh South
• 2 - Southport
• 2 - Edinburgh South West
• 2 - Edinburgh West
• 2 - Glasgow Central
• 2 - Glasgow East
• 2 - Ogmore
• 2 - Edinburgh East
• 2 - West Bromwich East
• 2 - Ayr, Carrick and Cumnock
• 2 - The Wrekin
• 2 - Livingston
• 2 - Central Ayrshire
• 2 - Pontypridd
• 2 - Cumbernauld, Kilsyth and Kirkintilloch East
• 2 - Dundee West
• 2 - St Helens North
• 2 - Wirral South
• 2 - South East Cambridgeshire
• 2 - Mid Sussex
• 2 - Harwich and North Essex
• 2 - Hampstead and Kilburn
• 2 - Halesowen and Rowley Regis
• 2 - Hackney North and Stoke Newington
• 2 - Gillingham and Rainham
• 2 - Garston and Halewood
• 2 - Epsom and Ewell
• 2 - Epping Forest
• 2 - Eltham
• 2 - Ealing North
• 2 - Dulwich and West Norwood
• 2 - Dudley North
• 2 - Hayes and Harlington
• 2 - Hazel Grove
• 2 - Meriden
• 2 - Meon Valley
• 2 - Lewes
• 2 - Leicester South
• 2 - Leeds North East
• 2 - Kingswood
• 2 - Kingston upon Hull West and Hessle
• 2 - Kensington
• 2 - Hyndburn
• 2 - Huntingdon
• 2 - Heywood and Middleton
• 2 - Hendon
• 2 - Dartford
• 2 - Darlington
• 2 - Bristol East
• 2 - Brent Central
• 2 - Braintree
• 2 - Bolton North East
• 2 - Birmingham, Selly Oak
• 2 - Birmingham, Edgbaston
• 2 - Bethnal Green and Bow
• 2 - Bath
• 2 - Barrow and Furness
• 2 - Barnsley Central
• 2 - Banbury
• 2 - Aylesbury
• 2 - Bristol West
• 2 - Bromsgrove
• 2 - Crawley
• 2 - Coventry South
• 2 - Congleton
• 2 - Colchester
• 2 - Christchurch
• 2 - Chipping Barnet
• 2 - Chingford and Woodford Green
• 2 - Cheltenham
• 2 - Central Suffolk and North Ipswich
• 2 - Carlisle
• 2 - Cambridge
• 2 - Burton
• 2 - Ashton-under-Lyne
• 2 - Mid Worcestershire
• 2 - Sheffield, Heeley
• 2 - Oldham East and Saddleworth
• 2 - Newbury
• 2 - Reading West
• 2 - Newcastle upon Tyne East
• 2 - Rushcliffe
• 2 - Poplar and Limehouse
• 2 - Pudsey
• 2 - North Dorset
• 2 - North Norfolk
• 2 - North East Derbyshire
• 2 - Poole
• 2 - New Forest West
• 2 - Reigate
• 2 - North East Somerset
• 2 - Scunthorpe
• 2 - Oxford East
• 2 - Penrith and The Border
• 2 - Solihull
• 2 - Milton Keynes South
• 2 - Plymouth, Moor View
• 2 - Penistone and Stocksbridge
• 2 - South Basildon and East Thurrock
• 2 - Sheffield Central
• 2 - Middlesbrough South and East Cleveland
• 2 - Newark
• 2 - Sevenoaks
• 2 - Mitcham and Morden
• 2 - Brighton, Pavilion
• 1 - Paisley and Renfrewshire South
• 1 - Stafford
• 1 - Croydon North
• 1 - Southend West
• 1 - Cannock Chase
• 1 - Orkney and Shetland
• 1 - Croydon South
• 1 - Croydon Central
• 1 - Cheadle
• 1 - Glasgow North
• 1 - Colne Valley
• 1 - Fareham
• 1 - Glasgow South
• 1 - Falkirk
• 1 - Inverclyde
• 1 - Inverness, Nairn, Badenoch and Strathspey
• 1 - Cities of London and Westminster
• 1 - Portsmouth North
• 1 - Preston
• 1 - St Ives
• 1 - Chelsea and Fulham
• 1 - Putney
• 1 - Rutherglen and Hamilton West
• 1 - South Thanet
• 1 - Blackburn
• 1 - Broxbourne
• 1 - Birmingham, Ladywood
• 1 - Birmingham, Hodge Hill
• 1 - Birmingham, Hall Green
• 1 - Birmingham, Erdington
• 1 - Bedford
• 1 - Beckenham
• 1 - Sheffield, Hallam
• 1 - Kenilworth and Southam
• 1 - Slough
• 1 - Islwyn
• 1 - Bolton West
• 1 - Bournemouth East
• 1 - Salford and Eccles
• 1 - Bury St Edmunds
• 1 - Delyn
• 1 - Romford
• 1 - Bromley and Chislehurst
• 1 - Broadland
• 1 - Swansea West
• 1 - Ruislip, Northwood and Pinner
• 1 - Aberavon
• 1 - Cardiff Central
• 1 - Bristol South
• 1 - Runnymede and Weybridge
• 1 - Brentford and Isleworth
• 1 - Arfon
• 1 - Cardiff West
• 1 - East Renfrewshire
• 1 - Tottenham
• 1 - Kingston and Surbiton
• 1 - Wells
• 1 - Kettering
• 1 - Ipswich
• 1 - Ilford North
• 1 - North Cornwall
• 1 - Telford
• 1 - Huddersfield
• 1 - Hove
• 1 - Horsham
• 1 - Westmorland and Lonsdale
• 1 - Hornsey and Wood Green
• 1 - Taunton Deane
• 1 - Winchester
• 1 - Kingston upon Hull North
• 1 - Watford
• 1 - Lancaster and Fleetwood
• 1 - Mid Norfolk
• 1 - Mid Derbyshire
• 1 - Tonbridge and Malling
• 1 - Vauxhall
• 1 - Manchester Central
• 1 - Maldon
• 1 - Luton South
• 1 - Liverpool, Wavertree
• 1 - Lewisham, Deptford
• 1 - Lewisham West and Penge
• 1 - Tiverton and Honiton
• 1 - Leicester East
• 1 - Warrington South
• 1 - South Derbyshire
• 1 - North East Hampshire
• 1 - North East Hertfordshire
• 1 - Enfield, Southgate
• 1 - North Antrim
• 1 - South Antrim
• 1 - Nottingham South
• 1 - Ellesmere Port and Neston
• 1 - East Worthing and Shoreham
• 1 - East Ham
• 1 - Ealing Central and Acton
• 1 - Banff and Buchan
• 1 - Pendle
• 1 - Daventry
• 1 - Dundee East
• 1 - Dunfermline and West Fife
• 1 - East Kilbride, Strathaven and Lesmahagow
• 1 - Fermanagh and South Tyrone
• 1 - Nottingham East
• 1 - Belfast West
• 1 - Harrogate and Knaresborough
• 1 - Witney
• 1 - Woking
• 1 - Harborough
• 1 - Hammersmith
• 1 - Hackney South and Shoreditch
• 1 - Gloucester
• 1 - North West Norfolk
• 1 - Wyre Forest
• 1 - Norwich North
• 1 - Feltham and Heston
• 1 - Esher and Walton
• 1 - Belfast East
• 1 - Norwich South
• 1 - East Lothian

This petition was submitted under the Parliamentary boundaries prior to June 2024, so the names may not be current constituency names

Signatures by Region

• 254 - South East
• 223 - North West
• 221 - Yorkshire and The Humber
• 218 - South West
• 189 - East Midlands
• 166 - West Midlands
• 163 - London
• 157 - East of England
• 130 - North East
• 114 - Wales
• 85 - Scotland
• 22 - Northern Ireland

Signatures by Country

• 1,971 - United Kingdom
• 6 - United States
• 4 - Canada
• 3 - France
• 3 - Spain
• 2 - Australia
• 2 - Germany
• 1 - Thailand
• 1 - Paraguay
• 1 - Portugal
• 1 - Peru
• 1 - New Zealand
• 1 - Isle of Man
• 1 - Hungary
• 1 - Gibraltar
• 1 - Chile
• 1 - South Africa