Quote Originally Posted by premierpistol View Post
This may be another of those "Depends on the FEO and the county authority" situations? , I didnt have to have an RFD to carry out repairs as way of business but another guy i know, in York area, did. The only thing other than a postcode and deapartment difference were I have a FAC and does not? I cant see that making much of a difference TBH but maybe because they had already done the background checks on me, may have some bearing on it?

There were issues with NOT having an RFD though, some parts were difficult to obtain and if an airgun was over the limit, I was advised to inform the FEO of this, carry out the works and tuning and then let them know it was now of legal status. a faff on and waste of mine and the FEO's time but if it kept me on the right side of things, they were happy.

I regularly carried out works for a number of RFD's locally to me, so they allowed me to act as a "slave" meaning I had authority from them to carry out repairs to guns that were booked into their shop. This allowed me to transport, reair and test any rifle, shotgun or airgun whilst carrying out the repair for them. I would arrange any FAC airguns to go through them at a modest admin cost so that they would carry out the final exchange with the customer and check licenses etc.

Worked well but to be honest, there is or was, lots of hours and plenty of running around for little money to be made in repairs so I went back to working for a wage. Pretty much the same as Darrin from XTX did

I still do the odd repair for friends and my old regulars, when I have time.. and will likely return to it full time when the time is right and the mortgage is paid off LOL
To be a servant of the RFD now, you have to have your name printed on the RFD as a servant. We get background checked and have to Provide date of birth, home address and place of birth. We can then legally handle any firearms, air rifles or shotguns as long as its to do with the business anywhere in the UK (such as collecting or dropping off)