Help - Advice on Part Disposal of a Shotgun

[wytonpjs]

So, many many years ago I bought a BSA100 SS shotgun from Stamford Gun Room. It's a 26 1/2" NEJ, SST, choked at 3/4 and Imp. I then discovered (and bought) a SKB variant that in addition to being a SST, was an ejector version with chromed barrels. This had 25" "Churchill" barrels and I had the stock extended by 3". This has been my primary shotgun ever since but I hung onto the BSA as a potential source of spares should the need ever arise. It hasn't and the numbers of S1/S2 firearms owned force a timely rationalisation at my imminent renewal if I'm going to add on the new acquisitions I have in mind.

With the market being what it is, I doubt that the BSA has any real value and am quite prepared to dispose of it. However, I'd very much like to retain its firing pins and any other parts that might possibly be of use for the SKB given that is not a popular shotgun in this country. Moreover, on looking at the receiver anew, I see its actually stamped SKB too internally.

Question please to those more knowledgeable than I:

• Is what I propose legally possible (this post to inform my discussion with my FLO)
• What parts must be surrendered on disposing of the shotgun?
  • I'm assuming life a rifle/pistol, the receiver, barrels and any other serial numbered parts should be surrendered?
• Can these "important" serial-numbered parts be disposed of by a RFD and the shotgun struck off my SGC?
• Has anyone actually done this and can provide first-hand advice?

Thanks in advance

 

[Demetrius]

Any pressure bearing parts can be handed in to a police station for free, but take your cert with you if you do this. OK to keep firing pins, trigger bits , and stock.
I took a couple of shot-out barrels in last year. An RFD would have to sign these in and out again, so understandably might charge for this.

D.

 

[rocketdogbert]

Keeping the stock is OK as long as, once removed, the theoretically fireable shotgun is more than 40” long still.
If it isn’t, it could be classed as a section1 or possibly section 5, so you do need to be a little careful.

 

[MrD]

In the past, our club has surrendered two shot-out rifles to the police. In both cases all useable spares were removed and we handed in a barrelled action and stripped bolt for each. There were no issues in doing this.

 

[wildrover77]

Keeping the stock is OK as long as, once removed, the theoretically fireable shotgun is more than 40” long still.
If it isn’t, it could be classed as a section1 or possibly section 5, so you do need to be a little careful.

Taking a butt stock of a firearm does not make it S1 or S5

 

[Greenmist]

Internal parts will be fine, most of which you can buy online and have posted to your home, the stock as well, if the barrels fit your other gun I'd keep them as well as a spare set, I'd keep everything without a serial number which on my shotguns would only leave the action (without any internals)

 

[rocketdogbert]

Taking a butt stock of a firearm does not make it S1 or S5

If it’s still fireable, so a functioning firearm, or potentially functioning (the interpretation is normally using household tools to fix or modify to fire), apparently it could do.
It depends upon interpretation by your local licensing authority, including interpretation of intention. I would not take that chance myself.

 

[Trickyd66]

https://www.thestalkingdirectory.co.uk/threads/spare-shotgun-barrel.222505/reply?quote=2208677

Some info here from a couple of years ago if it helps.

 

[Greenmist]

If it’s still fireable, so a functioning firearm, or potentially functioning (the interpretation is normally using household tools to fix or modify to fire), apparently it could do.
It depends upon interpretation by your local licensing authority, including interpretation of intention. I would not take that chance myself.

What if you dropped it and the stock snapped?

 

[nun_hunter]

In the past, our club has surrendered two shot-out rifles to the police. In both cases all useable spares were removed and we handed in a barrelled action and stripped bolt for each. There were no issues in doing this.

I did exactly this when I scrapped a BSA CF2. I took it into the FLD and gave them the barrelled action and stripped bolt.

I'd assume with a shotgun you'd have to give them the stripped action, barrels and probably the metal part of the forend as it has the serial number stamped on it.

Everything else could be kept.

 

[enfieldspares]

Simply put there are actually TWO sides to this not just the "does it bear a proof mark" view (which for the OP is the correct view). So I will give both.

1) As far as I read it the OP wants to keep spare parts for another shotgun of identical pattern which he lawfully holds on an SGC. I say that other than the parts that bear a proof mark...so other the bare barrels stripped of extractors, ejectors, brass bead (and even ribs) and the bare action (again stripped of springs, pins, limbs, strikers, striker discs, triggers and etc., etc., he can keep it all. Including the complete and intact forend.

2) Now this is the other side. That is where the OP has another shotgun of identical pattern which has been deactivated and for which a current and valid de-activation certificate exists (or existed). In that case a court may hold that possessing strikers, triggers, and etc., etc., may indicate an intent to try to recommission that deactivated shotgun by using the intact and capable of functioning stripped out parts as noted.

This 1) is how I see the OP's request and how I would advise. Only the bare barrels and the bare action are what he would need to surrender. All the rest he may retain without an SGC just as I don't require SGC authority or note on that SGC authority for spare firing pins supplied with my new bought Purdey sidelock or the spare detachable locks supplied with my Westley-Richards "drop lock" or the so called extra adult stock supplied with my teenager's Yildiz .410"

Needless I don't own a Purdey nor a Westley "drop lock" nor a Yildiz but I hope it makes the explanation clearer. One last thing! The cost of extending a stock in wood and done properly "in the trade" is an eye watering £175 when I had it last done which was 2024.

Have I done this? Yes in just this Spring 2025 when I surrendered a Webley 9mm Garden Gun and retained the stock and the extractor so handing in to the police the barreled action and bolt.

 

[wytonpjs]

Many thanks @enfieldspares, No 1 is exactly it. I'm a squirrel and hoard stuff and you know what's going to happen in the forthcoming game season if I dispose of the BSA complete

 

[enfieldspares]

Many thanks @enfieldspares, No 1 is exactly it. I'm a squirrel and hoard stuff and you know what's going to happen in the forthcoming game season if I dispose of the BSA complete

I still have the original stock and forend wood from my late father's 12 bore gun and its old and worn out ejectors. The gun was restocked to my dimensions now maybe twenty years ago and the ejectors replaced with a new set (at £350 for the two made and fitted) maybe fifteen years ago.