Is there export control from the UK concerning bullet heads and rifle brass?

[Kimmeridgien]

As the title says. I might have found a new loving home to some bullet heads and rifle brass, but would like to stay on the right side of what is legal.

 

[One on top of two]

You could start with just calling them bullets .

 

[Kimmeridgien]

I'm not sure that the difference makes any difference.

 

[finnbear270]

Heads, Bullets,

 

[DavyG]

As the title says. I might have found a new loving home to some bullet heads and rifle brass, but would like to stay on the right side of what is legal.

No restriction and perfectly legal. Just be a little “vague” when describing the parcel contents. I find that “brass containers & costume jewellery” works best…for me anyway,
DG

 

[Kimmeridgien]

For a second I thought that maybe this is one of those tomato, potato head issues, but that doesn't seem to be the case.

A quick googling gives a number of UK web sites that use the term "bullet head":

Bullet Heads | Wildcat Moderators

bullet heads

www.wildcatmoderators.co.uk

Bullet Heads - Reloading

Tannyoky Online Store

www.tannyokyguns.co.uk

Bullet Heads – Midcounties Blacking

midcountiesblacking.co.uk

Anyhow, this is only my second language, so I'm cutting myself some slack.

A smarty-pants, by any other name, is still annoying.

 

[cjm1066]

Head holes in a target - the mind boggles.

I assume rifle brass is like aircraft aluminium, it sounds good in marketing.

However, if you need export/import licences being deceitful when describing your property is likely to frustrate the process and might even get you arrested.

 

[Kimmeridgien]

Thank you DavyG!

 

[Kimmeridgien]

I do agree with cjm1066. Misrepresenting goods that is under some type of control is a great risk of running into unnecessary trouble. If you are taking a chance it is better to make an honest mistake.

It is not always obvious which items are restricted. I tried to buy a set of Zeiss picatinny ring mounts from a US webshop, naïvely thinking they couldn't possibly be restricted. Wrong I was. They were returned to the shop by DHL in the US.

 

[Stalker62]

Anyhow, this is only my second language, so I'm cutting myself some slack.

Don't worry old son - plenty of folk on here whose first language is English, still get it wrong.

You are excused.












They are not.

 

[Kimmeridgien]

Thanks Stalker1962. Maybe the term "bullet head" comes from a misunderstanding of the difference between "cartridge" and "bullet". I suppose many people use "bullet" when they actually mean "cartridge", in which case "bullet head" just refers to the tip of the cartridge, aka the "bullet"?

And here I was trying not to be taken for some ignorant foreigner. That didn't work very well. I'm lucky there were natives around, immediately setting me straight out of the kindness of their heart.

 

[Stalker62]

Without doubt there is confusion, and it is not helped by some manufactures using the wrong terminology - in what appears to be a 'dumbing down' exercise.

The problem as I (and other pedants) see it, is the term 'head' actually means the end of the brass where the primer goes, and where the manufacturers stamp their details (hence 'head stamp').

If you are starting out, you cannot be expected to know.

If you are going to get into reloading - you need to know.

It is fine to not know.

It is not fine to know, and then to continue to use the wrong terminology - you all know who you are...

 

[finnbear270]

Tim must be setting out his flappers.

 

[VSS]

No restriction and perfectly legal. Just be a little “vague” when describing the parcel contents. I find that “brass containers & costume jewellery” works best…for me anyway,
DG

"Sports equipment" would do nicely, and has the benefit of being true.
"Craft items" is another useful description to use.

 

[finnbear270]

Machined parts is a term I use for bullets, & brass tubing for cases.

 

[Kimmeridgien]

I do agree with you Stalker. One should use correct terminology. I often think that it is a prerequisite for higher-level thinking. You need to know things for what they are and refer to them in a proper, consistent, manner. It's the same with grammar. It's simply not possible to think clearly otherwise. Fonzie is cool. Fuzzy isn't.

 

[Tim.243]

Thanks Stalker1962. Maybe the term "bullet head" comes from a misunderstanding of the difference between "cartridge" and "bullet". I suppose many people use "bullet" when they actually mean "cartridge", in which case "bullet head" just refers to the tip of the cartridge, aka the "bullet"?

And here I was trying not to be taken for some ignorant foreigner. That didn't work very well. I'm lucky there were natives around, immediately setting me straight out of the kindness of their heart.

Ignore the others this chap has earnt himself an MBE, with the grammar queens starting fires on public land putting wrong fuel in trucks as part of their CV

 

[Kimmeridgien]

That's a fine video, but how do we all feel about getting back on topic? Everyone agreeing that DavyG is correct? No restriction and perfectly legal to export bullets and rifle brass from the UK?

 

[Frank Homes]

Without doubt there is confusion, and it is not helped by some manufactures using the wrong terminology - in what appears to be a 'dumbing down' exercise.

The problem as I (and other pedants) see it, is the term 'head' actually means the end of the brass where the primer goes, and where the manufacturers stamp their details (hence 'head stamp').

If you are starting out, you cannot be expected to know.

If you are going to get into reloading - you need to know.

It is fine to not know.

It is not fine to know, and then to continue to use the wrong terminology - you all know who you are...

If you are going to get into reloading - you need to know - What you are doing before discussing the niceties of nomenclature.

 

[Swedish]

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