Thread: a cat endorsed onto your e cat

Originally Posted by Digit

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There will be a lot of people wanting to know how this affects them. Does it only help those who already have an E?
Working examples?

Previously the police methodology was (in the case of a semi-auto being re-manufactured into MSSA configuration) to require the person to obtain both an endorsement and a permit to procure. Police then carried out the endorsement vetting on the "fit and proper" test but subsequently refused the permit to procure on the grounds that they had a thing called a "residual discretion." (They never said what this discretion was a residue of or where in the Arms Act it was provided for.. however that's another story.)

The decision of the High Court is that a permit to procure is not required to re-manufacture an existing semi-auto in MSSA configuration. The effect SHOULD BE that now only an endorsement is required and thus, once you're through the fit and proper test, police can no longer obstruct or interfere with the local manufacture / re-manufacture of MSSA firearms.

Digit... "E" is a letter of the alphabet and it makes no difference to anything to do with firearms if you happen to have a letter of the alphabet. An endorsement applies to a specific single firearm. It is an endorsement; not a letter of the alphabet. "E" is police nomenclature for a extra-legal nonsense that does not exist.

This helps civilian gun owners who wish to obtain a MSSA by manufacturing one locally from an existing semi-auto action and applicable parts. It allows both firearms licence holders and dealers to manufacture any endorsable firearm without obtaining a permit to procure.

I think the ruling about security precautions is fairly self-explanatory.

Kind regards
NSA