Quote Originally Posted by Fronteria View Post
BBC at Again!
Panorama investigates how antique guns are being brought into the UK perfectly legally and ending up in the hands of criminals. Panorama buys two handguns, one in America, carrying it through customs, and the other from an antique guns fair in Birmingham. Under current legislation it is legal to buy and sell guns provided commercially manufactured ammunition is no longer available. But criminals are home making ammunition for these antique weapons and then using them to kill. Gloucester gun dealer Paul Edmunds flooded the streets of Birmingham and London with antique guns as well as modern guns passed off as antiques. These weapons have been used in multiple murders. Now West Midlands Police and the National Ballistics Intelligence Service are calling for a change in the law to close this loophole.
Ah, what loophole? Buying an obsolete calibre handgun is legal, providing you are over 18 yoa.

Buying a gun the USA, is simple, providing that you have a UK FAC and the affair set in order to import it. It will usually be shipped directly to the RFD to save you carrying it - which would be illegal in the USA. I don't understand the buying a handgun and carrying through customs bit. How does that work out? Is it an antique C&R type of gun? In which case, unless you have a C&R registration, you STILL could not buy it legally in the USA. To have a C&R you must have a valid state driving license, and have pre-provided information fro the check.

Purchase of primers without a valid FAC for the type of primers you are buying is impossible here in UK, legally.

Possession of primers without a valid FAC is an offence.

Buying primers on-line? How does that work out? Primers are classed as explosives.

So the laws are already here - possession of a live firearm without an FAC is a criminal offence.

Making an obsolete firearm into a live one by manufacturing ammunition, without a valid FAC, is a criminal offence. Even possession with intent etc is a criminal offence in this country

Manufacturing ammunition for which you do not have a valid authority is a criminal offence.

So, what loopholes are they talking about?

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