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Antique shotgun, advice needed

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    #32
    tac foley
    Registered Users Posts: 5,500 ✭✭✭tac foley


    Sir, it has been said before, about other matters, but the EU's 'new rules' are not yet law, anywhere.

    Assuming future events and their inevitability is not law.

    tac


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    #33
    gunny123
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,611 ✭✭✭gunny123


    Bad_alibi wrote: »
    With the new EU decommission criteria it's not going to be as easy to get a firearm decommissioned anymore.

    All the more reason to get it done as quickly as possible, the law when it comes will have a start date. To the best of my knowledge there is no standard of deactivation in ireland. I did a couple of guns over the years and the guards were satisfied with them.


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    #34
    Grizzly 45
    Registered Users Posts: 15,024 ✭✭✭✭Grizzly 45


    Just use the current Uk deact specs..
    [IE Drill or slit both barrells at least 6ins under the fore end at least a quarter of the barrel diameter including the chambers,or arc weld steel plugs into the chamber Arc weld the firing pin channels ,and its pretty much INOP
    This is a major block of confusion in the EU rules at the moment,and the new specs aren't much different from this,as well as the fact no one is authorised ,yet by law to perform deact work in Ireland to EU specs,and the fact is that the new EU directive will suppoosedly recognise national deactivation standards ,provided they reach a certain criteria..As we dont have any deact standards here in law,old spec UK or new UK deact spec is good.

    "If you want to keep someone away from your house, Just fire the shotgun through the door."

    Vice President [and former lawyer] Joe Biden Field& Stream Magazine interview Feb 2013 "



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    #35
    gunny123
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,611 ✭✭✭gunny123


    Grizzly 45 wrote: »
    Just use the current Uk deact specs..
    [IE Drill or slit both barrells at least 6ins under the fore end at least a quarter of the barrel diameter including the chambers,or arc weld steel plugs into the chamber Arc weld the firing pin channels ,and its pretty much INOP
    This is a major block of confusion in the EU rules at the moment,and the new specs aren't much different from this,as well as the fact no one is authorised ,yet by law to perform deact work in Ireland to EU specs,and the fact is that the new EU directive will suppoosedly recognise national deactivation standards ,provided they reach a certain criteria..As we dont have any deact standards here in law,old spec UK or new UK deact spec is good.

    Thats pretty much what i did, along with welding up the firing pin holes.


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