If you revisit this Dig, just curious. Do these guns still need to be in proof along with the registration that goes with it. Does the UK still keep track of them and oversee the transfer of them. Thanks.
UK proof laws are a mine field but in simple terms , a gun dose not have to be in proof to be owned or used . It is an offence to offer or expose for a sale a gun that is either unproofed or out of proof .
There is a proviso in the UK firearms laws that allow a holder of a shotgun certificate to " borrow" a gun from the holder of another certificate for a period of 72 hours without informing the authorities and having the gun entered on to his certificate .
All gun transfers are/must reported to the police and there is or will be a central recording system that will be probably be EU wide as an EU directive has decided that all firearms records must be computerised .
