Milsurp After Hours

I did the deal tonight and I now own a Colt New Service in .455. It is very nice and goes nicely with my Webley MkVI in my collection. This is held under section 7/1 as part of a collection. I am not allowed to fire it The chap I bought it off has had it for many years and used to shoot it and he even won a prize with it at one of the pistol meetings at Bisley in the good old days. I will post a few pics when I get some done.

Regards

Peter.

Well done!

Looking forward to the pics

Joe

I took a few pics of my new (to me) revolver today. It is nice and I never thought I would have one of these.

The left and right sides.

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The barrel marking.

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The prancing horse.

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I presume this is the Enfield stamp?

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I should have taken a few more pics and might yet. I wish I could fire it as it has a lovely trigger pull. The previous owner fitted another spring that he thinned to ease the double action pull. He gave me the original spring that he took out of it. A very nice gun.

Regards

Peter

The stamp in the pic is the sold out of service mark, broad arrows meeting at the point!

NICE

thats a very nice one ,

Please tell me about this title 7-1 Collectors and not being able to shoot this very nice weapon. As an American, I can not understand the logic behind this, unless it is control of the individual. I thank you in advance for your response.

1Shirt!

With a UK FAC you can have section 1 which covers firearms, section 2 shotguns (issued as a seperate certificate) section 5 which covers prohibited such as machine guns (dont ask) and section 7 1 and 3 which either allow you to keep a weapon which is considered to have met the criteria for age and obselesence of ammunition to be kept at home. This covers such calibres as 9mm Steyr, .455, you get the picture. Calibres which are still available such as 9x19, .32 ACP etc mean that the pistols can still be owned but must be kept in a suitable approved facility which has the security and range facilities available but they arent supposed to be used for competitions!

Now you have some idea of the fudge that politicians can make when jumping on bandwagons.

Firearms law in the UK has always been about controlling the individual rather than the weapons!

not used for competitions ? why the BH not ? wouldnt that be something the liberals might see as harmless ? or are they worried one might get good at it ?