If you are going to be ordering from Freedom Arms, contact them with your specific length requirements. With just a minor barrel length change, they should be able to accomodate you. Along with that, the possibility of futuure sales to some of your countrymen could be an incentive for them to expand their foreign markets. It's woth an email.
What is the barrel length of a 10" Freedom Arms revolver?
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JayCee; Many thanks for doing the measurements for me. Seems like it's very close but no cigar.
Philuk44: Yes, that will likely be a problem. However, I think Freedom Arms will do it. The long barrelled ones you remember were indeed at Fultons a while back but they were very long ones - long enough that the overall length of the gun was 600mm without anything added to the other end. Freedom Arms will do specials like that if you order five. Apparently a chap did just that - kept two and Fultons sold the rest. I believe that some had the extention added and the barrels chopped to a more sensible length once here.
The other complicating factor - as if there weren't enough - is that I'm not sure that something like that can be easily made by a US manufacturer. The way I understand it is that if you take a handgun/pistol and add somethng to the end of it then it isn't legally a handgun any more. It's not a rifle either and, I think, would be classed as an 'any other weapon' which needs special licensing to make or export? Perhaps someone could clear that up for me?
And, yes, if I ever get one you can definitely shoot it!
W
Philuk44: Yes, that will likely be a problem. However, I think Freedom Arms will do it. The long barrelled ones you remember were indeed at Fultons a while back but they were very long ones - long enough that the overall length of the gun was 600mm without anything added to the other end. Freedom Arms will do specials like that if you order five. Apparently a chap did just that - kept two and Fultons sold the rest. I believe that some had the extention added and the barrels chopped to a more sensible length once here.
The other complicating factor - as if there weren't enough - is that I'm not sure that something like that can be easily made by a US manufacturer. The way I understand it is that if you take a handgun/pistol and add somethng to the end of it then it isn't legally a handgun any more. It's not a rifle either and, I think, would be classed as an 'any other weapon' which needs special licensing to make or export? Perhaps someone could clear that up for me?
And, yes, if I ever get one you can definitely shoot it!
W
FrankenMauser
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As long as you stuck with the "straight tube and weight" type of grip extensions, I think Freedom Arms would be able to get the ATF to sign off on it not changing the status of the revolver. (In other words, it wouldn't be a shoulder stock that made the revolver a short-barreled rifle.)
The problem is that FA isn't going to build anything for you until they have that determination in writing from the ATF. And, unless they see a decent number of export sales coming from it, they won't be very motivated to send the determination request in.
Of course, if they could produce them as an "export-only" model that's not for sale in the United States, it would simplify things. But, I don't know if such legal avenues exist.
The problem is that FA isn't going to build anything for you until they have that determination in writing from the ATF. And, unless they see a decent number of export sales coming from it, they won't be very motivated to send the determination request in.
Of course, if they could produce them as an "export-only" model that's not for sale in the United States, it would simplify things. But, I don't know if such legal avenues exist.
What you need is a decision from Her Majesty's Court that defines how a barrel will be measured. Even our stupid Canadian laws do not include vague statements like "the point at which the charge is exploded..." Especially since there is no such explosion.
In any case, if your lot is like our lot, what the thing actually measures doesn't matter. They go by what the manufacturer says it is.
Freedom Arms isn't going to make a special 'England Only' barrel. You can't have a barrel maker do one either. Barrels are restricted for export by the U.S. government.
In any case, if your lot is like our lot, what the thing actually measures doesn't matter. They go by what the manufacturer says it is.
Freedom Arms isn't going to make a special 'England Only' barrel. You can't have a barrel maker do one either. Barrels are restricted for export by the U.S. government.
Pond James Pond
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You could vote Farrage.....
He once Daily Mailed summat about repealing the firearms act, as if it didn't need to go to parliament!
So how badly do yo want guns...??
PS, I know TFL doesn't do politics, but this guy is the only politician to entertain repealing the ban on firearms in the UK that I know of. Hence it seemed sufficiently firearms related! No reference to other policies he may stand for...