Make it legal to carry non-lethal self defence weapons

• Petition
• Statistics

Daily and Total Signatures by Date

Popularity

This petition has 35,612 signatures in total, with signatories from all 650 constituencies. That makes it the 680th most popular petition of all time.

Geography

This petition has a Diversity Rating of 96% (high) and a Local Issue Rating of 4% (low).

Signatures by Constituency

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

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

Signatures by Region

• 5,148 - London
• 5,133 - South East
• 4,281 - North West
• 2,978 - East of England
• 2,760 - West Midlands
• 2,749 - South West
• 2,621 - Scotland
• 2,612 - Yorkshire and The Humber
• 2,466 - East Midlands
• 1,821 - Wales
• 1,268 - North East
• 610 - Northern Ireland

Signatures by Country

• 35,416 - United Kingdom
• 43 - United States
• 14 - Ireland
• 13 - Romania
• 12 - Canada
• 9 - Australia
• 8 - United Arab Emirates
• 7 - Jersey
• 7 - Netherlands
• 6 - Isle of Man
• 6 - Germany
• 5 - Italy
• 5 - Switzerland
• 4 - Belgium
• 3 - Singapore
• 3 - Guernsey
• 3 - South Africa
• 3 - France
• 3 - Malaysia
• 3 - Thailand
• 3 - Spain
• 3 - Finland
• 2 - Sweden
• 2 - Bulgaria
• 2 - New Zealand
• 2 - Philippines
• 2 - India
• 2 - Cyprus
• 2 - Kuwait
• 1 - Poland
• 1 - Wallis and Futuna
• 1 - British Virgin Islands
• 1 - Trinidad and Tobago
• 1 - Slovenia
• 1 - Solomon Islands
• 1 - Serbia
• 1 - Malta
• 1 - Brazil
• 1 - Chile
• 1 - China
• 1 - Denmark
• 1 - Western Sahara
• 1 - Gibraltar
• 1 - Greece
• 1 - Hong Kong
• 1 - Indonesia
• 1 - Iceland
• 1 - Cayman Islands
• 1 - Lebanon
• 1 - Luxembourg
• 1 - Morocco
• 1 - Bermuda