In France you can buy one and walk out the door. I believe they want to see some kind of identity document, but that is just the shop's preference for selling to people with no reason to be afraid to show an identity document. Cap and ball revolvers are uncontrolled and unregistered there, with just the same status as antiques.
What you HAVE TO CHECK UP ON WITH CUSTOMS but I believe to be true, is that you can bring it into the UK with you. If not, I think you can post it to yourself from France. The other big benefit of France is that the £18 limit for duty-free import doesn't apply to imports from within the EC.
Needless to say, you should only do this if you already have a variation for this firearm on your firearm certificate. You could get caught. Eurostar always x-rayed passengers' baggage, and so may anybody else by now. I would write up the details in the space for firearms acquired, in the last minutes before leaving French soil.
Another issue is the regulations imposed by ferry companies, Eurostar etc. Breaking these might not be an offence, if you can count on anything not being an offence these days. But it might stop you using their services again.
The above is emphatically not a guide to what you can do without further inquiries. but it might give an idea where you ought to be looking.
Proof is mandatory when a dealer passes a gun to a member of the public, even if the latter has paid for it. You, in turn, can't sell a non-British proved firearm to anyone except a dealer. But it isn't mandatory to own and use one.
What you HAVE TO CHECK UP ON WITH CUSTOMS but I believe to be true, is that you can bring it into the UK with you. If not, I think you can post it to yourself from France. The other big benefit of France is that the £18 limit for duty-free import doesn't apply to imports from within the EC.
Needless to say, you should only do this if you already have a variation for this firearm on your firearm certificate. You could get caught. Eurostar always x-rayed passengers' baggage, and so may anybody else by now. I would write up the details in the space for firearms acquired, in the last minutes before leaving French soil.
Another issue is the regulations imposed by ferry companies, Eurostar etc. Breaking these might not be an offence, if you can count on anything not being an offence these days. But it might stop you using their services again.
The above is emphatically not a guide to what you can do without further inquiries. but it might give an idea where you ought to be looking.
Proof is mandatory when a dealer passes a gun to a member of the public, even if the latter has paid for it. You, in turn, can't sell a non-British proved firearm to anyone except a dealer. But it isn't mandatory to own and use one.
