Firearms Forms and Contact Details

If you are looking to renew any of your current certificates we will automatically send to your last known address a renewal package. This will normally be about 12 weeks before your current certificate expires.

1. Decide which certificate you need to apply for (list below).
2. Download, print and complete the form and then send to the postal address below (please do not hand into a local police station). Please remember that we cannot accept payment by cash.
3. Checks will be made on both national and local records
4. A Firearms Enquiry Officer will come to visit you as part of the application process.

Please click on any of the below to download:
Please note some of the forms are temporarily unavailable - we apologise for any inconvenience.

Firearm Application Pack
 
Shotgun Application Pack

Coterminous (both of the above) Application Pack
 
Firearm/Shotgun Transfer Notification
 
Variation to Firearm Authorities
 
Change of Address Notification

You can contact the department or ask for a form to be sent to you by the following methods:

Telephone
01924 292310
01924 292312
01924 292330
(8.00am – 5.00pm Monday to Thursday & 8.00am to 4.00pm on a Friday)
 
Email
firelic@westyorkshire.pnn.police.uk 
 
By Post
Firearms, Licensing Section
West Yorkshire Police Headquarters
PO Box 9
Wakefield WF1 3QP
 
By Fax
01924 292236

General Advice

To help you with your request please ensure all relevant information is completed and submitted in plenty of time to allow the timely issue of your certificate. It is important that you give us your contact numbers so that we can arrange a mutually convenient times for a Firearms Enquiry Officer to visit you.