legaly speaking....... mini canons?

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Originally Posted by gimp

To save me looking it up, how do they define an antique firearm?

antique firearm means—

(a) any firearm that—

(i) is held in the possession of any person solely as an antique (but not as a copy or replica of an antique); and

(ii) is not designed for firing, and is not capable of firing, rimfire or centrefire cartridge ammunition; or

(b) any firearm declared by regulations made under this Act to be an antique firearm for the purposes of this Act

There you are Gimp , It used to be an antique if it was an old gun that ammo wasnt currently being manufactured for . Lots of us had 455 pistols , then Fiocchi started making ammo for obsolete firearms and the 455s etc went on ticket . Then an idiot got a pistol for home defence , it was an old French prototype revolver , and even though there was no ammo available it shot with 450 corto ammo , which expanded into the cylinder but still worked , there was a court case when he treatened his girlfriends husband with this gun , and as the jury couldnt understand how a gun could fire ammo that wasnt made for it he got off , so when the law changed they lumped everything that takes a cartridge except pinfires , onto an appropriate licence . If you have a muzzle loading antique rifle or shotgun you dont need any licence unless you are going to shoot then an A applies .