The UK's Finest Independent Forum for Shooters and Gun Owners. Est 2010.

JSC wrote:

Blackstuff wrote: Do you have any documentation/videos of discussion of that?

Do you mean the part about them trying to circumvent the existing law?

This is from the original consultation document:

"We are also proposing to prohibit ownership of rapid firing rifles, such as the VZ 58
Manually Actuated Release System (MARS) rifle, which can currently be purchased by
anyone who has a firearms certificate authorising them to possess a centre-fire rifle in one
of the relevant calibres. While a rifle of this nature is capable of a rapid rate of fire, there is
uncertainty about whether they can or should be defined as a self-loading rifle of a kind
already prohibited under section 5 of the Firearms Act 1968 because a second pull of the
trigger is required to discharge a round. Nevertheless, the rate of fire is significantly
greater than a conventional bolt-action rifle and recognising the intention of the Firearms
Act to prohibit civilian ownership of semi-automatic firearms and the risk that they would
pose if they were to get into the wrong hands, we consider it appropriate to subject rifles of
this type to the controls of section 5 of the Firearms Act 1968."

But as to where the initiative originated to look at them, that was very obviously from outside the Home Office.

JSC wrote:Indeed, I was well aware of that.

artiglio wrote:There is a post on facebook from the NRA asking any owners of mars or lever release rifles who purchased them on the grounds as being suitable for disabled shooters, to contact Iain Robertson.

Apologies if this has been posted already.

In addition in the second reading there was reference to attempts to smuggle high muzzle energy firearms into the country. I’ve done my best to google such stories but the smuggling attempts i can find are confined to pistols and Ak style firearms.
There seems to be no evidence or reasoned link between smuggling attempts and ME of 13600 joules, has anyone seen anything, just putting together another letter to my mp in respect of comments made in the second reading.

JSC wrote:I had to type it in manually. Very odd as I had copied the text from Notepad which usually strips any odd characters out.

So for the sake of clarity, that last post of mine above was a quote from Victoria Atkins on Wednesday!

Anyway, I was than going to say that I doubt any .50cals have been attempted to be smuggled. They could be talking about anything from a hand grenade to a mortar really. It's just bluff and we won't get the truth out of them.