Hooligans as young as 16 will face fines of up to £80 as part of Home Secretary David Blunkett's attempts to outlaw anti-social behaviour.
Blunkett visits a south London housing estate on Wednesday
"Crack houses", where Class A drugs are used and sold, will be shut down within 48 hours, and sealed for three months to prevent dealers moving back.
Airguns and replicas will be banned from public places and illegal possession or use of a firearm will be punished by a five-year minimum jail sentence.
Mr Blunkett, who unveiled the measures in a Commons statement, admitted that "a yobbish minority" could make "the lives of hard-working citizens a living hell".
Critics of the changes say they risk demonising children and argue new measures against begging are unjust.
He also outlined plans to withdraw benefits from noisy neighbours.
Mr Blunkett said: "It's time to stop thinking of anti-social behaviour as something that we can just ignore.
"Anti-social behaviour blights people's lives, destroys families and ruins
"It is not about waving a magic wand - it is about giving people the tools they need to claim back their communities for the decent law-abiding
Highlighting the crime wave that follows drug addiction, the home secretary revealed plans to close down drug dens within 48 hours.
"They will be sealed for three months so the dealers cannot simply move back," he said.
Local councils and environmental health officers will be given more powers to tackle noisy neighbours with fines, and to close down pubs and clubs that "shatter the peace of communities".
While chances of being a victim of crime were at their "lowest for 20 years", Mr Blunkett admitted "it doesn't always feel like that".
"I know that frightening gangs on street corners, neighbours from hell, tearaway children and drug pushers are the very things which make us feel uneasy and unsafe," he said.
'Tackling this scourge'
He stressed: "For too long some of our public services have shrugged their shoulders at this low-level thuggery and said it's somebody else's responsibility. It's not.
"We all need to play a part in tackling this scourge.
"People cannot continue to expect something for nothing - they must realise rights in our communities can only come when they take responsibility for their actions and neighbourhood."
Beggars will be given criminal records - although begging is already an offence - and fixed penalty notices would also be used to cover truancy, criminal damage or even cycling on the pavement.
Crack houses will be closed down in 48 hours
Earlier Mr Blunkett told BBC Radio 4 Today programme: "Nobody needs to beg in this country.
"There will be accommodation for them if they want, there are benefits available to them, even if they have not got a fixed abode."
But Shaks Ghosh, chief executive of homelessness charity Crisis, said beggars needed help, not punishment.
"Dragging them through the criminal justice system will only hold them back from reintegrating into society," he told Today.
Plans to dock the child benefit of persistent offenders and truants have been dropped.
But the package has still come in for criticism.
Cathy Evans, from the Children's Society, said: "We are very concerned at the prospect of creating more ways, more reasons to punish children and to demonise children."
What was instead needed was more activities to stop children getting bored and turning to trouble, she said.
That call for more youth schemes was echoed by Liberal Democrat home affairs spokesman Simon Hughes.
He argued the focus should be on making existing measures work properly.
He highlighted locally based schemes in his own constituency of North Southwark and Bermondsey.
Harry Fletcher, of probation officers' union Napo, said an "army" of community support officers would be needed to enforce the plans.