Home Office - Recording Rifle Serial Numbers

[safetyfirst]

Pointless. You could make up anything. Nobody would know.

[bradaz11]

is anyone going to know if you put down a different serial to the no you actually shot? is anyone at the club going to care?

the whole thing is pointless. does the police actually have the resources to trawl though all these logs to see if you have shot one particular gun, less than twice a year?

[GeeRam]

It does seem yet more ill thought red tape hoop jumping.......

As pointed out, if you only have one gun per calibre, whats the point...?

It only becomes a valid point if you had say 3 x slots for a .303, and they were all say, SMLE's, then maybe there's justification for say putting say, SMLE*xyz with the last 3 numbers to identify which one was shot that day.
Of course if you took all 3 and shot all 3........it all becomes pointless again

[HALODIN]

Yep I agree, but I was over ruled... Democracy is so unfair...

As long as you can produce up-to-date and accurate records, I don't see why it should be a problem keeping it at home. They are kept in the folder for convenience more than anything.

There is no hardship to a copper by cross-referring a single number to your records sheet with the serial numbers on. If anything, it will probably make it easier for them!

[HALODIN]

Have you moved now?

We talked about this and you could of course just use a new letter or number for the new rifle. I can't see a problem with it.

(this does of course start to break down after variations etc if the police insert a new rifle in the middle)

[bradaz11]

yep, in sunny weston super mare now. loving the new house but still not got my reloading room sorted yet, need to get something loaded on sunday or i'll have to shoot bang on monday :) 1hr or so with my XdM then some time on the indoor 100yrd range. should be good.
need to join a local for a home office club though

[HALODIN]

Cool, glad to hear you've settled in.

XdM's a pistol isn't it?

[bradaz11]

yep, 9mm, here is mine



totally mint, unfired judging from how black the front of the polymer frame went after 200 rnds last friday

[dromia]

Does anyone know if any of our "national" bodies had any input into this silliness and if so what their position on it is.

I suspect it would be supporting the HO stance rather than common sense and gun owners. I would like to be proven otherwise.

[safetyfirst]

yep, 9mm, here is mine



totally mint, unfired judging from how black the front of the polymer frame went after 200 rnds last friday

Umm, so you live over one of the ponds right?

On the serial numbers note, unknown plenty of people with 6 .22's etc.