Quote Originally Posted by u.k.neil View Post
I wonder what difference this will make to legislation regarding air gun moderators when it comes into effect?


Following years of lobbying, BASC has welcomed the Government’s decision to remove the licensing requirement for sound moderators.

Dame Diana Johnson MP, the Home Office Minister for Policing and Crime Prevention, this morning made a written ministerial statement to announce the publication of the government response to a Home Office consultation on sound moderators, which took place during the term of the previous government.

The response confirms that the Government has decided to remove sound moderators from firearms licensing controls, although in order to lawfully possess a sound moderator you will still be required to hold a valid firearms certificate.




Neil
Last I'd heard, the BASC were trying to get clarification of the requirement to have a licence to buy/possess a moderator due to the current status, whereby you don't need a licence for shotgun and airgun moderators. Has there been any clarification yet?

There still seems to be a postcode lottery on the ability to buy moderators mail order, some online rfds will post, others are sticking to the old rules and won't post. This may not seem like that much of a problem to most shooters, but those of us who collect more than shoot often see some vintage stuff which we'd like, but have to do the rfd transfer malarky, which is ridiculous imho.