Home office consultation on deregulating sound moderators

[andy R204]

Done

 

[bowji john]

done

 

[UpNorthMI]

Done, Let's hope this works out to make everyone's life easier.

 

[artschool]

Sadly, I can see the antis trying to instigate meeja stories with headlines like: "Tories in deadly silencer free-for-all". Hope not.

you forgot silencer for "high powered sniper rifle"

 

[alan123shooting]

All done

 

[maxtich]

Just completed ..couldn’t have been sooner!

 

[cjm1066]

Lets hope all SD members fil this eminently sensible proposal

 

[Old Codger]

DONE………we have been for too long!

 

[Eddie P]

Done and spammed my family with it too... even the vegan ones!!!

 

[paul o']

There is no need for them to waste more of our tax on a stupid law they brought in in the first place ! just get rid of it ?

 

[Bo Diddley]

Done

 

[long_range_rob]

Done

 

[A Gordon]

Completed

 

[wytonpjs]

Long overdue - hurrah! Completed

 

[The Grouse]

Done

 

[webley701]

Done.

 

[Nimrod1960]

Why on earth were they ever considered to be licensable ?
Obviously not in of itself capable of discharging a projectile, civil service ignorance and mission creep I guess.

I am currently thinking about swapping a wildcat for something lighter on my .243 but cant really be bothered with the paperwork.
I think the trade will get a bit of a boost if common sense prevails.

Common sense not very common though is it.

 

[nun_hunter]

Now if they do not need licensing, will the price drop?

Well anyone with some machining experience could start making them and wouldn't need to be an RFD so maybe. Are most imported moderator's from countries with strict(er) controls than the UK? If so then the price of those probably won't fall.

If you can just post them freely then the price of secondhand units could go up as you've now got a wider market and no RFD costs, or prices could fall as people start selling more and and changing what they have as it's much easier to do so

 

[enfieldspares]

Why on earth were they ever considered to be licensable ?

For sure they were in the 1937 Firearms Act, as here "firearm, except where otherwise expressly provided, means any lethal barrelled weapon of any description from which any shot, bullet or other missile can be discharged and includes any prohibited weapon, whether it is such a lethal weapon as aforesaid or not, any component part of any such lethal or prohibited weapon, and any accessory to any such weapon designed or adapted to diminish the noise or flash caused by firing the weapon".

So you'd need to go back to Hansard and the Committee Stage or 2nd Reading of the Firearms Bill that became this 1937 Act to see why. It was not in the 1920 Firearms Act

 

[Rake Aboot]

I bought a predator P8 from a guy on eBay who had no idea what it was
It was in an auction job lot as an air rifle silencer
£50 new deliveree re d
FEO had no issue with it and I stuck it on very to use with a centrefire

Absolutely stupid non control.
Quicker it’s done away with the better.