can powder stay in the barrel?

[Feltwad]

Here in the UK we have the most strict gun law in the world , you can loose your shotgun or Firearms for any offence which includes an argument with a neighbour .Once you loose your certificate it is very rare you get them back , your weapons are also confiscated .
Feltwad

 

[cynthialee]

Here in the UK we have the most strict gun law in the world , you can loose your shotgun or Firearms for any offence which includes an argument with a neighbour .Once you loose your certificate it is very rare you get them back , your weapons are also confiscated .
Feltwad

you guys are over due for a revolution

 

[fishmusic]

In the 5th grade our teacher read to us "Little House in the Big Woods." the precursor to "Little House on the Prairie." There was a chapter on Pa's long gun. In that chapter is described the cleaning, drying, molding of balls and reloading for the next hunt. It was common practice to keep the gun loaded. He used bear grease lubed patches by the way.

 

[TFoley]

you guys are over due for a revolution

Some of us don't need tellin'.

tac, owner of nineteen guns in UK

 

[Black Hand]

"An armed man is a citizen. An unarmed man is a subject."

 

[Flintlock_bob]

Here in the UK we have the most strict gun law in the world , you can loose your shotgun or Firearms for any offence which includes an argument with a neighbour .Once you loose your certificate it is very rare you get them back , your weapons are also confiscated .
Feltwad

Just curious, who is allowed or not allowed to have a firearm and what do you have to do to be allowed to have one?

 

[Feltwad]

Here in the UK we have the most strict gun law in the world , you can loose your shotgun or Firearms for any offence which includes an argument with a neighbour .Once you loose your certificate it is very rare you get them back , your weapons are also confiscated .
Feltwad

Just curious, who is allowed or not allowed to have a firearm and what do you have to do to be allowed to have one?

There is an endless list of what you can and cannot do to obtain a Firearms Certificate or a Shotgun Certificate.
The most important are you must be of good character with no convictions, you must have a recognised place to use your gun, If a muzzle rifle or pistol that must be a military approved range for rifle or a pistol club range. you are not allowed to shoot any game with a ML rifle. All firearms must be used on the range at least twice a year ,if not your Firearms Certificate is confiscated. For security the rifle must be kept in a security cabinet which is visited every 5 years when your F.C is renewed. Modern pistols and auto and breech loading are banned
For a shotgun you must have a place to use a shotgun such has land for game shooting or a clay club. You are allowed to keep a original muzzle loader or a breech loader that is exempt in bore sizes other than 12,16,20, 28, 410.If you do use any original m/l shotgun or breech loader in other bore sizes then they must be entered on your shotgun certificate has a antique.
These are the main circumstance to own a F/C or S/C but others do apply.
Feltwad

 

[TFoley]

Flintlock Bob - I think you'll find and about half of my total number of posts are given over to explaining UK gun laws per se, and a lesser amount of handgun law in Northern Ireland, none of which applies to us with muzzleloading firearms.

Basically, as Feltwad notes, here in ALL of UK [that's England, Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales], you can have any kind of muzzleloading firearm, long or short, or handgun, up to and smoothbore up to 2" bore - that's a punt gun BTW, not a rifled gun.

In order to shoot your RIFLED muzzleloader of any kind, you MUST have a firearms Certificate, usually called an FAC, or just a 'ticket'.

To get THAT, you MUST be a full member of a gun club, and, having served six months provisional noob-ship to learn the ropes, you may apply for your FAC which authorises you to acquire and possess the gun of your choice. That would occupy a page here by itself.

As Feltwad notes, they cannot be used anywhere except on an authorised range, and in the UK there are NO un-authorised ranges.

Shotguns that are also muzzleloaders may be held on a Shotgun Certificate - any number - literally. Same for shotguns that hold up to three cartridges. More than that and they have to be on a FAC, and you must either be a practical shotgunner or have another so-called 'good reason' to possess it - like wildfowling.

Muzzleloading shotguns have their own competitions, and are much enjoyed by those who have them, but again if you use them they must be on your shotgun certificate.

You have to produce your FAC to buy percussion caps and sub-BP, or your black powder license [free, lasts five years] to buy BP.

ALL fireable replicas are counted as modern firearms, and are treated as such with regard to home security.

There is, of course, a LOT more to it than that, but this is not the place to go into more detail.

tac