hi im a uk shooter am getting jealous reading about your handguns as uk shooters carnt own them my last handgun/s were S&W 686 and a H&K USP 9mm miss shooting them
I was curious earlier today so I looked it up. According to wikipedia:I understood UK people can still use black powder weapons. Cant you use an old revolver type black powder hand gun?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antique_guns#United_Kingdom_Antique_Gun_Laws(i) - The exemption does not apply to ammunition, and the possession of live ammunition suitable for use with an otherwise antique firearm will normally indicate that the firearm is not possessed as a curio or ornament. (ii) - The exemption does not apply to firearms of modern manufacture which otherwise conform to the description above. Fully working modern firing replicas of muzzle-loading and breech-loading firearms, for example those used to fire blanks by historical re-enactment societies but capable of firing live ammunition, must be held on certificate. For these purposes, 'modern manufacture' should be taken to mean manufacture after the outbreak of the Second World War in 1939.
http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm199900/cmselect/cmhaff/uc95/uc9507.htm...For these reasons, some care must be exercised in seeking to single out particular certificated firearms as especially dangerous. The selection of firearms discussed below are chosen as having been the subject of some concern about their potential misuse and the Firearms Consultative Committee were accordingly asked to consider them as part of their work programme. The Government has not therefore sought to draw conclusions at this stage on their future status.
MUZZLE-LOADING REVOLVERS
Muzzle-loading revolvers, sometimes referred to as "percussion revolvers" or "cap-and~ball" revolvers, were an early attempt to design a pistol that could fire several shots in quick succession. They are loaded by placing a charge of gunpowder and a bullet in the front of each chamber of the revolver cylinder, and a separate percussion cap at a nipple in the rear of the cylinder. These were developed in the 1840s, were used in the Crimean War, the American Civil War and the early years of the "Wild West", before being superseded by more modern designs of breech-loading revolver.
During the passage of the 1997 Act, Parliament agreed that muzzle-loading guns should be exempt from the ban on handguns. As muzzle-loading revolvers were classed as muzzle-loading rather than breech-loading guns, these were included in the exemption.
What is a nitro conversion?yes your right black powder guns are ok but we carnt shoot black powder in an indoor range only the moden version also there doing a nitro coverson of the BP revolvers using pistol primers
they changed the gun law in SA saying you carnt use a firearm for protection anymore plus they have to do a training course to be able to keep there guns my farther inlaw owns a cz in 380 i think didnt get a chance to shoot it