The most significant change is a new firearms register. Successive Governments have failed to deliver a register since it was first recommended by Sir Thomas Thorp in 1997. This will finally track how many firearms are in legal circulation, who holds them, who is selling them, and who is buying them. Once the register is established, every licence holder has up to five years to register their guns. They will need to keep updating the register as they buy or sell guns. It allows us to link firearms to licence holders, return stolen firearms to their legitimate owner, and hold licence holders to account for the safe storage and possession of firearms. 