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So section 26 of IMPORTS OF FIREARMS & AMMUNITION IMPORT LICENSING ARRANGEMENTS 2015 how are you by passing this?

 

 

Expanding ammunition is prohibited under Section 5 of the Firearms Act 1968 (as amended). Registered Firearms Dealers may import them provided they have a suitably conditioned Certificate of Registration as a Firearms Dealer or Firearms Certificate. A Dealers Open Individual Licence is not valid as it does not include items falling to Section 5 of the Act.

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Because no-one is importing ammunition, expanding bullets, even though classed as section 5, are just inert lumps of metal and not live ammunition.

Taken from the Home Office Firearms Guidance

 

2.9 Ammunition means ammunition for

any firearm and includes grenades, bombs

and other like missiles whether capable of

use with a firearm or not, and also includes

prohibited ammunition. It will be noted

that the definition of ammunition does

not include ingredients and components

of ammunition; it is only assembled

ammunition that is controlled under the

Act, not component parts. Empty cartridge

cases, for example, are not ammunition.

The only exception to this is the missiles for

ammunition prohibited under section 5 of the

1968 Act, for example expanding or armourpiercing

bullets. Such missiles are themselves

regarded as ammunition and are subject to

contol accordingly

 

So in the UK they are ammunition!

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Ok spoke to BASC today and they said it can be done but a Sect 5 courier like PAR not Royal Mail parcel force TNT etc must be used from the UK port onwards for Expanding Sect 5 ammo target loads can just go any method.

 

They had also sort Customs advice and they had confirmed awhile ago they would prosecute anyone not using sect 5 couriers.

 

So unless you have a sect 5 courier acount it's highly unlikely you can do this legally.

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It's you choice but if you are caught importing section 5 ammunition (in the UK expanding bullets are classed as ammunition) and your not using one of a very very few section 5 couriers you will be prosecuted and ignorance is no defence in law weather a European company tells you it is legal or not.

100% WRONG If anyone got prosecuted it would be the carriers Not the company sending or the person receiving.

And that came from the Top Man Of Firearms licensing Department .

As other's have stated if you and other's Don't want to do then fine .

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[quote name="welshwarrior" As for Firearm Licensing even "the top man" are often wrong. Maybe someone should ask the Home Office!

It doesn't bother me I get them cheaper anyway in the UK.

 

Correct nobody including myself is perfect.

I to was a disbelieving this was legal so when I renewed my FAC I asked the FEO who then in my presence phoned the Chief of Firearms Department.

I have already explained on here what I was told a few posts back.

If it does not bother you because you get your Projectiles cheap why keep trying to prove myself and others wrong !!!!!!!

Again repeating myself why would I who has held SGC and FAC for over 40yrs risk loosing them for cheap Projectiles and posting on a Forum which is checked by different Authority's eg FEO

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I would like to ask, what is the difference between an rfd importing from outside the uk and a normal person?, surely it would be the same courier sending the gear?

Very few if any RFD's retailers are likely to import direct they will buy from the uk distributor/s and the goods will then be transported by a courier authorised to carry the product (at a premium price).

 

The distributor will buy in bulk probably a container load and again specialist transport firms will be used authorised to carry the goods.

 

Bottom line is none of us like paying more than we need for an item but if the correct method of transport is not used then at best the border agency could return the goods to the sender or destroy them at worst you could get a knock on your door, is your licence worth that risk?

 

Your choice but remember ignorance of the law is no excuse.

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100% WRONG If anyone got prosecuted it would be the carriers Not the company sending or the person receiving.

And that came from the Top Man Of Firearms licensing Department .

As other's have stated if you and other's Don't want to do then fine .

Not sure this would be true, let's say you purchased legal drugs online from a firm in holland which were illegal in the uk are you saying you would not be prosecuted for trying to import them? But the courier would who had no idea of what was in the parcel.

 

If that's the case then hell lets get ordering and why you are at it why not get a gun from some mate in America or the EU because only the courier/Royal Mail would get into trouble, does not sound logical does it?

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