muzzle loading pistols

[bulletz]

A quick question

do muzzle loading pistols need to be kept at a designated club the same way as LBR need to be or can you keep them locked up at home ??

thanx

[loiner1965]

if they old and antique and satisfy the home office guide lines then they can be wall hangers etc...if they on your ticket as fac then at home locked up mate

[bulletz]

they will be going on ticket

thanx for the advice not much about it on the net or atleast not much 100% info about

[loiner1965]

locked up then mate... i have 3 muff pistols .... 1 musket and 2 x martini henry clones just lying around as classed as obsolete / antique calibres

[somtec]

Hi
What makes you think an LBR has to be stored at a designated club, if youve got a ticket and secure storage then they can be kept at home.
Section 7 historic pistols have to kept at designated sites.
Peter

[bulletz]

Hi
What makes you think an LBR has to be stored at a designated club, if youve got a ticket and secure storage then they can be kept at home.
Section 7 historic pistols have to kept at designated sites.
Peter

this

http://www.airgunbbs.com/showthread.php?524985-pistols

[cmnicholls]

Pistols are not banned in this country, as long as they fit within the requirements of section 1 you may own one. (some can even own section 5 hand guns, Professional stalkers, vets, slater-men, VIP's) This is a legal point that the government is quick to point out if asked. The so called long barrelled pistol has no legal classification as they did not exist when the last amendment to the firearms act was passed, this is why only the person with a LBR on there ticket can shoot it and then it has to be the one on your ticket. Oddly in a recent test case in the high court the buckmark semi-automatic long barrelled pistol as converted by Alan Westlake was found to be a rifle in the eyes of the law and can now be lent and held as a club gun.

As far as locking it away, if its section 1 Or 2 its locked away if its section 58 (2) you hang it on the wall if its section 7(1) you lock it away and don't shoot it, section 7(3) Its kept at a designated range such as Bisley, where you can shoot it, Section 5 they usually lock you away.

[Jim McArthur]

The so called long barrelled pistol has no legal classification as they did not exist when the last amendment to the firearms act was passed, this is why only the person with a LBR on there ticket can shoot it and then it has to be the one on your ticket. Oddly in a recent test case in the high court the buckmark semi-automatic long barrelled pistol as converted by Alan Westlake was found to be a rifle in the eyes of the law and can now be lent and held as a club gun.

And correctly so, in my opinion.

Since UK law does not impose its prohibitions / severe restrictions on "handguns", but rather on "short firearms" (those with barrels under 12". and / or with an overall length under 24"), the so-called LBR's and LBP's, as you correctly said, have no legal classification as a category unto themselves.

Legally, they are NOT "short firearms". Therefore, they are "rifles", and should be subject to the same restrictions as other cartridge rifles: no more and no less.

It's the police, not the law, who have (incorrectly) decided that this type of rifle should be more severely restricted than other types.

Jim