Supaduke wrote:Edit : I believe you need to own a certain amount of firearms in the preceding level before you can advance to the next as well.
That is to stop people joining a club, waiting out their time then trying to go straight for a cat C etc.
cflake wrote:Supaduke wrote:Edit : I believe you need to own a certain amount of firearms in the preceding level before you can advance to the next as well.
That is to stop people joining a club, waiting out their time then trying to go straight for a cat C etc.
I've looked into it and you need to have been a member for 2 years and have collected at least 15 firearms on your collectors license to get the next level of license which allows post 1947 firearms.
More than 10 ( i think?) firearms needs a monitored alarm, along with more stringent storage requirements - bars on windows, etc.
Gun-nut wrote:Bars on windows? Throughout the entire house? If that's true then that's absolute bulls**t. Nothing says suspicious like having bars on windows...
No1Mk3 wrote: All Cat D held on the licence must be completely welded, bore, action, trigger group etc. Might as well carve an SLR out of soap.
bladeracer wrote:No1Mk3 wrote: All Cat D held on the licence must be completely welded, bore, action, trigger group etc. Might as well carve an SLR out of soap.
http://www.platatac.com/catalogue/weapons.html?dir=desc&limit=100&order=price
Blue Guns are cheaper, no licence required, can be displayed, can even let unlicenced friends handle them.
Still not an actual firearm though
Gwion wrote:$400!!!???!!! For piece of plastic moulded to the shap of a gun???
For the same price I can but a piece of plastic moulded to the shape of a kayak and actually use it as a kayak !
Or, a bolt action rifle that I can actually shoot; ok, not a very good one but a functioning rifle nonetheless.
Supaduke wrote:Far as I could work out, it's so you can own pistols without range attendance requirements. Collectible, milsurp and police issue pistols being the main sort after so those falling under cat 1.
World War Two and earlier provided a wealth of interesting and unique pistols. It was a time of great innovation and design. Pistol design after the Second World War rapidly declined with battle proven designs become standard (looking at you 1911). A 1950's 1911 is pretty much the same pistol as made today. Pre 47 pistols have genuine historical significance.
These pistols, being old and probably valuable, people want to own them but don't want to shoot them with any sort of regularity. They may not want to shoot them at all. The collectors license allows people to do this.
If you want to own and shoot your pistol regularly, get a regular pistol license. You will then be subject to range attendance requirements.