Do YOU send your guns to England for proof, Larry?
Why would I (or anyone else) need to do that, Gene--as long as we don't either modify guns significantly (like lengthening chambers) or buy guns that have been so modified without having been submitted for reproof? Long ago, in my then-ignorance, I had the chambers on a prewar Sauer 16 lengthened, after which I fed it a fairly steady diet of high brass pheasant loads. The gun survived and so did I. But thanks in large part to this very BB, that's not anything I'd ever do again. Lesson learned. Ignorance can be cured. Now if I'd continued that practice after having been presented with good evidence that it's a bad idea, that would no longer be ignorant. It'd be just plain stupid. And there are people who are ignorant and don't care to learn, which is why stupidity is much harder to cure.
