Anyone Know Anything About This Antique Pistol

[Hares Ear]

Be careful. As it is bored through, then as Tacfoley says, it is a firearm. What's the maximum sentence these days, 10 Years?

[tacfoley]

Be careful. As it is bored through, then as Tacfoley says, it is a firearm. What's the maximum sentence these days, 10 Years?

Correct.

Your little pistol IS a Section 5[1] prohibited firearm under the Act. Read - (aba) any firearm which either has a barrel less than 30cm in length or is less than 60cm in length overall, other than an air weapon, a muzzle-loading gun or a firearm designed as signalling apparatus.

Penalties for this being found in your possession are not negotiable - you ARE de facto guilty of possession without a license, if you do NOT already have such a license. Do you recall the poor bugger who found a sawn-off shotgun in his garbage and was arrested handing it in?

Were I you I'd be taking some very clear advice as of this moment.

tac

[todaystheday]

Thankyou for the advice it's defo been taken on board.

[markH]

It might just be worth making a chamber cast and slugging the barrel as I believe some of these were made in .25 rimfire. Which of course is an obsolete caliber..... thus no licence required.

[Bjacobs571]

Pedersoli make a similar thing nowadays they do two versions one which takes a No.11 percussion cap and one which uses a shotgun primer. They are muzzle loaders so are not prohibited weapons but they would still need a section 1 FAC license.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZSNXY...JZj7l3MXUPReHg

[steve medlock]

I have one as well. I saw one in a museum labelled as a 'cyclists pistol for scaring dogs'.