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Message: <blockquote data-quote="PteBurdenR" data-source="post: 799366" data-attributes="member: 1614">Thanks for the information. I know it seems restrictive for people used to OK type laws, but trust me for an Englishman even CAs gun laws are lax!To get a firearm in Britain, even a shotgun or rifle, you have to apply for a FAC, which involves talking to the local Chief Constable (basically Chief of Police for a county). You have to sit through interviews, background checks etc and when you finally get your FAC, you can't own more than one gun of a given calibre, nothing other than a bolt-action rifle or a shotgun, and you have to submit to inspections of your property to prove you have a gun safe and that its securely bolted to the wall and so on and so forth. These inspections take place every 6 to 9 months and are sometimes unannounced.Lest to say, I didn't go through it myself, however members of my re-enactment group had, and its a long and winding road just to own a basic bolt-action rifle or even a smoothbore blackpowder musket. Think we can all agree, anything is better than that!</blockquote>