New guy from UK with awkward question.
Hi all, as you can see from the title I am new to this forum. I have a tricky question for the UK boys mainly as it is relevent only to UK laws. Well here goes; I have recently been bequeathed a Stealth rifle old school (pre anti-tamper), the kindly gent who gave me this gun has always claimed that the rifle was a FAC gun. I don’t hold an FAC. Here in lies my problem, and I told him so. He said that he has got the gun un-registered and I would be alright to own the rifle. Now I have since read somewhere that ‘once an FAC always an FAC’ which means I can’t own said gun. Now here’s the really tricky bit; this fellow is prone to fibbing sometime and the gun may never have been registered as FAC. I am aware that you can easily tweak the gun to shoot hot.
Now here is my question; can I easily find out if this gun is FAC or not? Thanks for being patient with me and reading all my ramble and all input and info gratfully received. G
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No, but if they catch you with an air rifle that is even 1fpe over the 12fpe limit you are considered to be in possession of an illegal firearm which I do believe is a mandatory jail sentence.
So if never registered as an FAC rifle put it back to <12fpe and keep it as an off ticket airgun.
Seems simple enough to me.
Makes you wonder why truth comes so hard to some folks eh?
Walter….
I keep hearing about this but I don’t understand how you would actually get caught. Do the officials come to your homes..?
hi fellow uk,er
right mate to start with if the guns fac dont touch it if u don,t have a fac
as soon as u take posetion off that rifle your doing so unlawfully and u will be breaking the fire arms law .
now the stealths can be tamped to take them from 12 ftbl to what ever5 u want realy as long as u have deep pockets
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Walter this is what I hope is the case, cause I really want the gun. 🙂 But the manditory jail sentance(5 yrs) is putting me off, this is why I wanted to know if I could find out if the gun is registered. Thanks all for responses. G