Importing a .30 moderator from Ireland

[Hillcrawler]

Evening all, hoping I can get some clarity regarding the above title.
As it's stands, I have a .30 moderator sitting on a .223 registered on my Irish FAC (great salesmanship from the Irish gun dealer...).
I have a slot on my British FAC for a moderator and keen to bring it over (it's a Hausken and superior I think to my Wildcat Evo).
Moderators in Ireland are not recorded, however it needs to state you may possess one on the Irish FAC.

Do I need a import / export licences?
Do I need to go through a gun dealer?
CAn I just bring it over on the ferry and write it onto my UK FAC?

Thank you im advance and apologies if this has been covered elsewhere.

 

[paul dillon]

North or South

 

[Foxyboy43]

Evening all, hoping I can get some clarity regarding the above title.
As it's stands, I have a .30 moderator sitting on a .223 registered on my Irish FAC (great salesmanship from the Irish gun dealer...).
I have a slot on my British FAC for a moderator and keen to bring it over (it's a Hausken and superior I think to my Wildcat Evo).
Moderators in Ireland are not recorded, however it needs to state you may possess one on the Irish FAC.

Do I need a import / export licences?
Do I need to go through a gun dealer?
CAn I just bring it over on the ferry and write it onto my UK FAC?

Thank you im advance and apologies if this has been covered elsewhere.

If you are coming to GB via NI - per PSNI moderators must not only be recorded on your fac but the fac must specify the firearm it is used with.

 

[Heym SR20]

Importing and exporting of Firearms of their component parts has lots of paperwork and implications if you get wrong. Whilst a moderator is a piece of tube with baffles and threaded bit it is designed as a component parts of a firearm that is attached at the end of the barrel.

There will be plenty that opine on SD that it’s just a piece of scaffolding pipe and thus should not be subject to controls. But they are.

A moderator is not that expensive. The level of embuggerance of going to local gunshop in the UK and buying moderator, is probably a lot lower than the potential embuggerance of Border Force doing a spot check as you come across on the ferry and find the moderator.

 

[Hillcrawler]

North or South

South

 

[Hillcrawler]

If you are coming to GB via NI - per PSNI moderators must not only be recorded on your fac but the fac must specify the firearm it is used with.

Not via NI, Rosslare (Wexford) to Fishguard (Wales).

 

[paul dillon]

You will have to import it if it were NI a simple RFD to RFD would of sufficed, can you not get your gun shop to order one in

 

[Hillcrawler]

Paul, thanks for the advice. There are a plethora of suitable new and second moderators on SD & at my local gun shop. It is just a frustrating situation as I have a .308 rifle in England (currently with a WILDCAT EVO mod) and a HAUSKEN .30 moderator in the ROI sitting on a .223.

My plan B is to sell it Ireland and get an actual .223 moderator and stick with the Wildcat. I just can't find out any clear guidance on the paperwork/process required to bring over an inert item that has subtly different licencing requirements in the two districts.

It is certainly not worth losing much sleep / taking a risk on, just hoping someone will have done it previously and can advise on the process. Goes without saying involving RFDs is a waste of time and money for such a small inexpensive item.

 

[8x57]

Evening all, hoping I can get some clarity regarding the above title.
As it's stands, I have a .30 moderator sitting on a .223 registered on my Irish FAC (great salesmanship from the Irish gun dealer...).
I have a slot on my British FAC for a moderator and keen to bring it over (it's a Hausken and superior I think to my Wildcat Evo).
Moderators in Ireland are not recorded, however it needs to state you may possess one on the Irish FAC.

Do I need a import / export licences?
Do I need to go through a gun dealer?
CAn I just bring it over on the ferry and write it onto my UK FAC?

Thank you im advance and apologies if this has been covered elsewhere.

Just my take on it but as moderators are treated as firearms in the U.K. why not do as I did on a couple of occasions when importing rifles from France.
You have permission to possess and already own the moderator in Eire, and you have a slot on your U.K. firearms certificate so why not simply sign it on your FAC yourself and inform your issuing constabulary that you have done so. I would declare it at U.K. customs on arrival in the U.K. but my experience has been that they thanked me for letting them know and made a note of the details but weren't overly interested otherwise.

 

[Dunwaters]

If you contact the firearms and explosives section of the Dept of Justice in Dublin they will be only delighted to issue you an export certificate free of charge. They’re very easy to deal with and couldn’t be more helpful.
That just leaves the import documentation to sort out…

 

[Hillcrawler]

If you contact the firearms and explosives section of the Dept of Justice in Dublin they will be only delighted to issue you an export certificate free of charge. They’re very easy to deal with and couldn’t be more helpful.
That just leaves the import documentation to sort out…

Somehow I feel the sarcasm has quite been laid on heavily enough for me to figure out if you're joking or not about the DoJ!

 

[Dunwaters]

Somehow I feel the sarcasm has quite been laid on heavily enough for me to figure out if you're joking or not about the DoJ!

No sarcasm at all, the staff are genuinely helpful. I’ve imported and exported gun related stuff several times, theres never been an occasion when the DOJ here was less than exemplary dealing with the matter. They’ll even issue you an import licence for a rifle for which you don’t yet have an FAC.

 

[ARCHERFOREVER]

Hillcrawler, did you get sorted? If not, pm me and we will chat. Have a little experience and may help.