How many here collect deacts or obsolete caliber pistols?

[tacfoley]

A guy in my club has a few sect 7 guns stored in Bisley, he gave a talk to the club about them. I asked him exactly that, how to get a licence and start a collection. You can start a collection with just 1 firearm IIRC.

So all he could actually do is talk about them? Couldn't show them to you, allow you to handle them? That's pretty sad, IMO.

Still doesn't explain how you have a collection of just one gun, or how you acquire it without having the licence to acquire it.

What comes first?

ME: I want to begin to collect Swiss military handguns from 1880 up to WW1.

FEO: You need to demonstrate that you are a collector of the relevant handguns that are of some historical or cultural interest.

ME: I don't yet have ANYTHING at all, where do I start?

FEO: You need to demonstrate that you........

See where I'm at?

tac

[Smokeless Coal]

for yours is easy tac, you want one to add to your already existing collection of scandinavian rifles.

FEO: You need to demonstrate that you are a collector of the relevant handguns that are of some historical or cultural interest. should read FEO: So you want to add to your collection of scadinavian firearms, what do you already have?

ME: I have several rifles from that era and wish to add the pistols which match.

FEO: no problem.


One can easily be had. The collection may be nothing to do with firearms, perhaps a famous person is what the collection is based on. You may have other artifacts, for instance uniform paperwork etc of maybe a relative who was a renowned officer or a wild west notorious figure so may want to add their weapon to your collection.

The whole scheme is not to make it possible for everyone to have a pistol, its not aimed at shooters but at collectors and the preservation on important pieces of history.

[tacfoley]

Thank you for that, it really makes it a whole LOT clearer!

All but two of the firearms that interest me - one from Switzerland and one from Sweden - are already on the obsolete calibre list, and readily available - for looking at - albeit it at a considerable price.

This needs some thinking about...

tac