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12-01-2001, 03:17 PM

Dear All -

Thanks for the heart-warming messages. Now I guess you want to know what happens when you 'partly' lose your guns. What I didn't tell you was that I had one of each S&W Model 29 from 1960 onwards, a Ruger Super Redhawk, my father's Walther PPK, a Walther .22 Olympic shot in the 1936 Olympic Games, Jurek free pistol #2, A Wilson S&W model 586, a target S&W model 17 and a Walther GSP in each calibre. I got to keep my Ruger Old Army and my Colt Walker, because, as everybody knows, the criminal is not interested in front-stuffers when he can get his paws on the odd couple of hundred Skorpions and Mac 10's. What deactivation involves, in the case of self-loading pistols, is the boring out of the barrel, and the insertion of a length of tool steel to within .5" of the muzzle. A section is then machined out of the breech, removing the loading ramp in its entirety, but nothing else is done, except machining a slot for one third of the length of the barrel underneath. In the case of a revolver, all of the above, and then the interior third of the cylinder is removed , and replaced with an annular ring, preventing anything whatsoever from being in it. Externally, nothing has changed, except that we are now looking at a paperweight. Oh yes , and the little matter of a Home Office certificate of deactivation and the fee of about $120 each. I'll admit to you all that I cried when I opened the box containing my beloved weapons, and I felt betrayed. It was that, or see them thrown in a skip for destruction. Unless, of course the weapon was a Glock of some kind. In that case, it went, in front of your very eyes, into a box marked 'Glocks for Police use only'. I was a soldier for my country for 34 years, and with one stroke of a pen I, and 58000 others like me, had been converted into a possible child-murdering pervert. Remember - " Those hard-won liberties, which we formerly enjoyed and which we stand in danger of being denied, once lost will be twice harder to regain". No American said that, although he may well have. Instead said it, at the last meeting of our pistol club of over three hundred members. Now we are six. Between us we lost over 1200 pistols and revolvers. The criminal, I reminded the 24 club members who were also members of the police force, does not usually apply for a Firearms certificate.

Regards to all

Terry F

12-01-2001, 03:17 PM	#5
Terry A de C Foley Guest Posts: n/a	Re: Just found you! Dear All - Thanks for the heart-warming messages. Now I guess you want to know what happens when you 'partly' lose your guns. What I didn't tell you was that I had one of each S&W Model 29 from 1960 onwards, a Ruger Super Redhawk, my father's Walther PPK, a Walther .22 Olympic shot in the 1936 Olympic Games, Jurek free pistol #2, A Wilson S&W model 586, a target S&W model 17 and a Walther GSP in each calibre. I got to keep my Ruger Old Army and my Colt Walker, because, as everybody knows, the criminal is not interested in front-stuffers when he can get his paws on the odd couple of hundred Skorpions and Mac 10's. What deactivation involves, in the case of self-loading pistols, is the boring out of the barrel, and the insertion of a length of tool steel to within .5" of the muzzle. A section is then machined out of the breech, removing the loading ramp in its entirety, but nothing else is done, except machining a slot for one third of the length of the barrel underneath. In the case of a revolver, all of the above, and then the interior third of the cylinder is removed , and replaced with an annular ring, preventing anything whatsoever from being in it. Externally, nothing has changed, except that we are now looking at a paperweight. Oh yes , and the little matter of a Home Office certificate of deactivation and the fee of about $120 each. I'll admit to you all that I cried when I opened the box containing my beloved weapons, and I felt betrayed. It was that, or see them thrown in a skip for destruction. Unless, of course the weapon was a Glock of some kind. In that case, it went, in front of your very eyes, into a box marked 'Glocks for Police use only'. I was a soldier for my country for 34 years, and with one stroke of a pen I, and 58000 others like me, had been converted into a possible child-murdering pervert. Remember - " Those hard-won liberties, which we formerly enjoyed and which we stand in danger of being denied, once lost will be twice harder to regain". No American said that, although he may well have. Instead said it, at the last meeting of our pistol club of over three hundred members. Now we are six. Between us we lost over 1200 pistols and revolvers. The criminal, I reminded the 24 club members who were also members of the police force, does not usually apply for a Firearms certificate. Regards to all Terry F