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33 minutes ago, Freggyragh said:

I think he specialises in spoons and forks. In the absence of more police it’s probably worth a go though. 

Many moons ago my then Guv'nor hired Yuri Geller to prospect for gold. He met him for dinner at a posh nosh gaff in London and sure enough he bent the cutlery! They later flew to some part of South America or Central Southern America or somewhere and from the air using a map Yuri Geller pointed out where the gold was to be had. They did find gold but it was so far as I know too remote and not feasible to extract but all the geologists said there was no gold there when there was...I think Yuri Geller's fee was about $100,000 and he charged $45,000 for the lunch meeting! They should have charged him for bending the forks!

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1 hour ago, Barrie Stevens said:

http://www.oldguns.co.uk/

You can buy very good working antique guns and curios for which the ammunition is no longer made. A while back on the BBC Flog It a Pinkerton agency 5 shot .31 calibre revolver sold for £375...Obsolete calibre from the 1930s see...Quite legal to own...Some crooks are making the ammo and down on my manor a former REME artificer was making ammo for antiques in good order and which can now easily include WW1...A lot of obsolete calibres in rim fire and pinfire out there...Last I heard police were seeking a change in the law on working antiques and curios.....Of course making an antique fire and having ammo without a firearm certificate is a basic five years for starters...Click the link above to see what you can buy and get working..

I recall when the firearms laws in the UK were very lax. At the age of 17 in the 1960s I had Firearm Certificate and owned a .22 Browning "Nomad" automatic, a .455 Webley revolver and a service issue 9mm Browning Hi Power. I would take these on  the bus with ammo to get to ranges.,

My certificate also authorised me to buy a 7.62 MM NATO standard Belgian FN assault rifle which came with a bayonet at £1,000 from Parker Hale in Birmingham. I did not buy it as I had not go £1,000 in the 1960s.

My certificate also enabled me to buy a .30 carbine, .22 revolver, .32 automatic pistol, and .22 pneumatic rifle which the police said was OK as it was just an air rifle but it was not it was powerful and needed a certificate. I think I also had a permit for a .44 Remington civil war black powder reproduction revolver but no permit for black powder.

Swedish Norma 9mm ammo for the Browning back then cost £2.50 for 50 rounds. Later at Sheffield University OTC the CO let me keep the Browning in the unit armoury and any amount of free ammo normally used for the old Sterling SMG..(9mm MK 2Z)...

I think I was rationed to buy  a yearly total of 800 rounds of 9mm ammo on my own account and to hold no more than 50 rounds at a time. The .22 ration was about 1,500 rounds a year and to hold no more than 150 rounds at a time. Extra ammo could be had from the gun club under the club's licence but they kept hold of it..

I was a schoolboy at the time I first acquired this lot

I also recall one of the university cadets at Sheffield going to shoot at a competition at Bisley and he was allowed to carry the British Army standard 7.62 mm assault rifle with a sort leather sling but otherwise open on the train as long as he was in uniform. There was a sort of cover for the muzzle and magazine areas. He put the thing up on the luggage rack. 

Try the above now! No chance!

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