In the last few months there has been a team going around shows and militaria fairs seizing air guns from sellers with no rfd i know of collector’s disposing of some of there collection locally to me and have been seized and handed to west mercia Police .No charge and no chance of getting guns back is what they have been told
Also...if you swallow an orange pip a whole orange tree will grow out of your bum! Its true and it happened to my mates cousin's dad
"But we have our own dream and our own task. We are with Europe, but not of it. We are linked, but not comprised. We are interested and associated, but not absorbed."
Winston Churchill 1930
I'm not sure such an organisation would get very far without providing any background or legal justification for their actions? Would you hand possessions over to an unknown without requiring an explanation?
I suspect there will have been legitimate grounds for the events which may have fuelled this rumour- likely something to do with crossing the line into trading without any necessary RFD certificate (as opposed to private sales to over 18s as we do on BBS)
Registered Firearms Dealer...someone legally allowed to trade in gun sales as a professional.
It sounds all too plausible to me, unfortunately. It was a somewhat grey area under the VCR Act as to what 'dealing' in post-1939 airguns meant. It is probably arguable that a militaria dealer who sells the odd postwar airgun is 'dealing' in them as a professional, hence, if they have no airgun-specific RFD approval, they are breaking the law...
Equally it could be argued that someone at a boot fair is not a dealer until they sell a certain (undefined in the Act) number of airguns per week/month/year.
If pre-1939 airguns were seized, it was an illegal act and the police should have been called.
I hope I am dead wrong about all of this.
Vintage Airguns Gallery
..Above link posted with permission from Gareth W-B
In British slang an anorak is a person who has a very strong interest in niche subjects.
I do know this person who has had his air guns taken so this is fact not fiction