Antiques on/off ticket.

[markH]

I had my visit from the FEO(s) yesterday and they seemed skeptical of my assertions that it was OK to transfer an antique onto FAC for the purpose of shooting it and then take it off again to restore its' antique status.

I have 3 antique rifles which I would be interested in firing, simply to say I had shot them. I hoped to put one at a time on ticket, shoot it then swap for another.

It's no big deal I just think it would be nice to shoot eaach of them just once.

I'm not cracking up am I????? I understood the above to be correct.

Can anyone provide a source of evidence that I can quote?

[Unframed Dave]

I was under the impression, that once they become firearms, they cannot go back, thus lowering their availability to many and hence, value.

Happy to be corrected.

Dave

[Unframed Dave]

Sorry, my mistake, I thought you were referring to air rifles.

Dave

[markH]

I think that was more to do with conversions. They used to get up to all sorts of tricks to convert section 1 to shotgun cert, i.e. extending and smoothboring barrels.... you used to be able to get a bren gun on section 2 but I think that has gone by the board now.

These days if it started life as section 1 it remains there from here to eternity.

I would assume the many lee enfields that were converted had to have their magazines restricted and welded in place when the 3 shot rule came in.

[mag44uk]

I put a martini henry on fac then took it off at next renewal. Sold it with no problem.

[enfield2band]

You can transfer an antique muzzleloader onto your gun license. If it is smoothbore it goes on the SGC, if it is rifled it goes on the FAC.
Put it on the respective certificate and inform the police. Send them a copy of the details the gun (they may want to know its provenance), and send them a photostat copy of your license where it has been put on.
Put "from my collection" where it would normally be filled in by a dealer if you bought a certificated gun.

When (if) you decide not to use it anymore it can revert back to Section 52 as antique/curio.
Do the same and inform the police of what you have done and show it cancelled on the certificate.

Some police forces will tell you that once a gun (antique) is put on a license it cannot revert back to antique status. This is not true.
It does not state this anywhere in he firearms act.