Submitted on Tuesday 26th August 2025
Rejected on Thursday 4th September 2025
Current status: Rejected
Rejection code: duplicate (see below for details)
Make the carrying and firing of catapults in public illegal
Make it illegal to carry catapults in public places, so the police can arrest those carrying, especially in areas of known wildlife crime, regardless if ammunition is found or not.
I am an wildlife rescuer and believe we are currently in a wildlife crime pandemic.
75% of my call outs are due to apparent abuse of wildlife offences.
We think the law needs to change to give the Police more powers to arrest those carrying catapults.
There has been an increase in reports of wildlife being attacked by groups of youths carrying catapults and ball bearings.
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The Government e-Petitions Team gave the following reason:
There's already a petition about this issue. We cannot accept a new petition when we already have one about a very similar issue.
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The following petition calls for a similar action:
Ban the sale of catapults and carrying catapults in public
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/729101
216.73.217.50 Sun, 21 Jun 2026 00:55:26 +0100
