Originally Posted by
rayman
Have been over this with the Police since the early 80's as a Firearms dealer, 1. to comply with the act sec 58.2 the weapon must be obsolete calibre & over 100 years old, to be kept as a curio & not fired, 2.If I had a Colt DA in .44 Rus dated or made 1910 for instance I could not keep it without sec 5 if I wanted it as a curio or sec 7 if I wanted to fire it. 3.The law states over 100 years old & it rolls on every year, so when the act came out in 1968 that would make a 1939 weapon an antique at the ripe old age of 29 I do not see it. Check with your FEO of FLO. There are 100's of obsolete calibres produced in the States up until 1939, if that were the case I would be buying them with out the need for sec 7 import licence.
Cheers Glynn.