Re: Nothing much changes
the ban made this class of airgun Sec5 to all except to those who were aware of the underpublicised change in the law and licensed them at the time. If you wre lucky enough to be aware and apply they are classified as Sec1 to the owner.
Unfortunately you can't sell, gift, exchange, swap, lend, bequeath on your demise or in fact do anything much with what might have cost several hundred pounds at the time. Essentially making it valueless and also irreplaceable.
The other side effect is that there were at least 68,000 of this type of airgun sold in GB from just one manufacturer pre VCR bill. less than 7000 from all makes were eventually licensed so that is a lot of Firearms Crime CREATED by badly thought through and poorly implemented legislation.
There is a general undercurrent of demonisation and FUD being pushed in Britain around firearms ownership by civilians.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
