So if Jimbo's Father in law wished to buy a sound moderator to use as a paper weight, what would be illegal about that?
The interesting part of the transaction could be having it put on your licence, doing it yourself could raise questions, and a local RFD could resent you for not making the purchase from them in the first place.
i have a moderator "no makers name" .."no visible numbers" on my ticket. with this i can go to the RFD (or send anyone else) to buy a new t8 or may be something else if i fancy a change (mod not proofed of course!) i would not be breaking the law,bring it home and put it next to my other mod if asked during a visit of an FLO,,,one is for a air rifle!!
This point has been raised before. My C/F sound moderators are not calibre specific, they are .30cal (it is stamped on them). But one is put on my FAC as a 6.5x55 moderator and the other as a .308. There is no other marking upon them, no serial number, no nothing, no way of identifying any specific moderator.
The law on this is a farce. I could easily use any one of them on any of the rifles I own. Yet my FEO has been told by his boss that each moderator is classed as a firearm and must have its own place in my cabinet, yes that's right, a resting place for each firearm and a resting place for each moderator because it is classed as a firearm
Now if you were so inclined, and gifted, you could make one of these moderators yourself and have it as a paperweight, and if you were to not posess an FAC presumably you would not be breaking the law
But woe betide you if you do have an FAC.
Now my moderators were placed on my FAC as I asked for them, but they cannot be entered on my FAC individually, there is no serial number.!!!!!
As Dickens once wrote, " then the law sir, is an ass". How apt
Simon