Section 5: Muzzle-loading firearms may be prohibited except under licence.

(1) This section shall not have effect in respect of Lagos.
(2) The Commissioner of Police of a State, with the consent of the Governor of the State in respect of the State or any part thereof, may by order prohibit the possession or control of any firearms of the categories specified in Part III of the Schedule to this Act (hereinafter referred to as a "muzzle-loading firearm") without the licence of an authority to be specified in such order.
(3) Upon the making of an order under subsection (2) no person shall within any area specified in such order have in his possession or under his control a muzzle-loading firearm without a licence granted in respect thereof by the appropriate authority in accordance with regulations made under section 33 of this Act.
(4) An authority specified in an order made under sub-section (2) of this section, shall render such periodical returns as may be required by regulations.
(5) The grant of a licence in respect of a muzzle-loading firearm in respect of which application has been duly made shall not be refused except for one of the reasons specified in subsection (2) of section 7 of this Act.