All sorted. I called into the local gunshop (without the gun) and he confirmed my suspicions that it would cost more to get a certificate that declares it safe and legal than it is worth in value.

I phoned an insider so to speak and I’ll drop it off at the front desk at the police station tomorrow and they will get their armed response cops to officially make it safe before disposal.

 LL.B (Hons) - University of Derby
LOT (Lord of Time) - University of Gallifrey

Sounds good. We had a number of people come in who wanted to put grandad's old shotgun on the wall as an ornament etc and the process costs several hundred £s to send it off to a proofing house and get the certificate. Basically unless it was an antique Holland and Holland or a Purdey in mint condition it wasn't worth it.

Reminded me of the story though of some guy who stole a classic Holland and Holland and sawed the barrel off for a bank job. Apart from eventually getting nicked, the money he got from the bank was less than the value of the gun he had destroyed. Duh.... 3 x FL1 2 manual + 1 auto
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Certainly the best route to take Doc.

When I was growing up everyone’s favourite uncle had a war souvenir, revolvers, bayonets , you name it someone had one , my favourite was the .303 rounds loaded into stripper clips, 5 at a time if I remember rightly . I won’t go into what ingenious ten year olds did with those

But times have changed, and should your relic ever get into the wrong hands it would still look nasty pointed at the post office clerk , yes the melting pot is the best place for it .  2009 GS Auto Zermatt Silver - Sold June 21 after 10 years of ownership

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our family used to have an old Martini Henry rifle that belonged to my great granddad. Whilst his medals and uniform now reside in the regimental museum in Canarvon (?) castle the rifle disappeared somewhere. Utter shame.

A few years ago I saw a beautiful Martini action go for disposal. The owner had inherited it and had no interest in it, just wanted rid of it. No amount of talking to him would dissuade him so off it went for cutting up. Also saw the authorities seize a mint BSA 303 stamped 1916 over a very minor FAC problem. It was also cut up despite being a piece of local history. Shame.

RogB wrote:

our family used to have an old Martini Henry rifle that belonged to my great granddad. Whilst his medals and uniform now reside in the regimental museum in Canarvon (?) castle the rifle disappeared somewhere. Utter shame.

Why would he have been able to keep it legally without a FAC? 3 x FL1 2 manual + 1 auto
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This ... https://www.vintageguns.co.uk/articles/obsolete-calibre-list/ 2009 GS Auto Zermatt Silver - Sold June 21 after 10 years of ownership

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Remember this?
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2017/d...ul-edmunds

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2017/o...court-told 3 x FL1 2 manual + 1 auto
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MartynB wrote:

RogB wrote:

our family used to have an old Martini Henry rifle that belonged to my great granddad. Whilst his medals and uniform now reside in the regimental museum in Canarvon (?) castle the rifle disappeared somewhere. Utter shame.

That’s a real shame as you could have legally kept that rifle without a FAC . I think I’d be having a word with Michael Caine about where it went , He and Stanley Baker cornered the market in them ....

dorsetfreelander wrote:

Remember this?
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2017/d...ul-edmunds

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2017/o...court-told

Somewhat off topic but this reminds me of an incident involving a cop friend many yonks ago. There had been an armed robbery at a local cornershop where the bad guy had a shotgun. It made the headlines in the local rag for weeks after. Unrelated to the robbery my cop friend went to a house to enquire about a "lost cat", as he put it, or something quite trivial. When he got there and saw the man he wanted to speak to the man told him that he knew what he (the cop) wanted and it was in the loft and offered to get it. So the cop asked the man what was it in the loft and he said it was the gun he used in the robbery. The cop had no idea the man was involved on the robbery and took untold brownie points for tackling and arresting an armed criminal and solving the robbery.

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Dixon of Dock Green must have been very proud of himself.

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[quote="Jimboland] . . . . many yonks ago[/quote]

Yonks . . . now there's a word you don't hear often

The Doctor wrote:

I phoned an insider so to speak and I’ll drop it off at the front desk at the police station tomorrow and they will get their armed response cops to officially make it safe before disposal.