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Short version: How do i courier a shotgun back from France to the UK?

As per the title, i'm struggling to find an answer to this problem. My shotgun is currently located with my Uncle in southern France near to Toulouse. He has no intention of returning to the UK and no longer holds a UK shotgun certificate. 
I wish to bring the gun (which was originally bought in the UK and taken to France) back to the UK. 
I'm currently unable to travel to France to collect the gun and return with it to the UK, what are the alternatives?

Despite speaking to my local FEO, local gunsmiths, clay pigeon shoots and also emailing a few gun shops in France near to the guns location in Toulouse, i've been unable to resolve.

Surely there is a courier that i could pay to collect the gun, and deliver it to a gunsmith or RFD in the UK near to me?

Any and all help appreciated.

thanks

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2 hours ago, Swinton said:

that information explains what needs to be done, i'm unable to find a company, RFD etc who are able and willing to actually do it. A local RFD said they needed a French RFD to use their export certificate, after emailing five different RFD in Toulouse, none of them offer the service.

As for London Gun Services, they didn't reply to my email or form, and upon phoning they said they would get back to me but never did.

Thanks for your reply though.

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Easiest , notify local Licencing section of your ‘purchase’ and have it placed on you current SGC- at the same time as for a European Firearms Permit with this shotgun listed on it.

Then, go pay your uncle a nice surprise visit using the cheapest EasyJet flight to Blagnac (Toulouse) having informed EasyJet Customer Services that you will be checking in a firearm ( lockable case remember) 

Its how I brought mine back ( not the EasyJet part though ) 

 

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1 hour ago, Jaymo said:

Easiest , notify local Licencing section of your ‘purchase’ and have it placed on you current SGC- at the same time as for a European Firearms Permit with this shotgun listed on it.

Then, go pay your uncle a nice surprise visit using the cheapest EasyJet flight to Blagnac (Toulouse) having informed EasyJet Customer Services that you will be checking in a firearm ( lockable case remember) 

Its how I brought mine back ( not the EasyJet part though ) 

 

you seem to have missed the bit where i'm unable to travel, if it was as simple as flying over there and bringing the gun back then i wouldn't have posted and gone through all of the trouble i already have, as detailed above. ?

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Didn’t miss it, just didn’t realise ‘unable to travel’ was not just an inconvenience, but something more that hinders such a move.

After all you could be there and back in less than a day.

BTW, if you wish to use a Specialist importer then I hope the gun in question has some value as it’s often cost prohibitive, hence I went down the route that I did ,especially as I was to be charged per firearm and not as a ‘group’ 

Secondly, is your shotgun registered at the ‘Prefecture’?if it is that presents one set of problems as there is a request form to fill in to export. If it’s not listed then you had better get it place on an EFP pdq

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Why can you not travel .if you don’t like flying why not drive to France and get it 

if you get the relivent paperwork can you not bring it back that way 

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2 hours ago, Gu5 said:

Is this shotgun on any ticket?  If it was on uncles but now expired how does the tracking of it go?  Is it now an illegally  held gun?   Could this be why no local French dealers want to be involved?

 

Not quite, having lived and shot there for 10 years I got to know the system- could try and write/explain, but I would end up loosing myself ?

 

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21 hours ago, figgy said:

Can you not have the gun posted in separate parts ie barrels posted then the woodwork and finally in another parcel the action. 

Is that not by passing the normal way to legally bring firearms into the country? 

I certainly wouldn’t want to do it. 

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If he is going to put it on his ticket I don’t see as any different to carrying it over his shoulder. 

Its only getting around the couriers. As your only posting machinery or engineering parts. 

Whether it’s legal I have no idea. 

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