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Not all the good Brit guns are on your side of the pond just yet! I still have a use for this one though I am sure it will end up with you folks in the end.
In a 20ga and yes it would be on this side of the pond although in the colonies with a Brit descendant. My next gun has to be an English hammer in 20ga, 30" damascus barrels, back action and side lever. (drool)
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Wrong information on the internet, no, say it ain't so. Even wrong information can be informative and since I asked for someone to show me the flaw I appreciate all answers.
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Owenjj3, tell us about your steel bar Purdey. It seems that they are very low production guns and sell for big buck.
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Brent, I never really worked for State, but I "played" a State Dept officer for a couple years. You were fortunate to get a clear answer from them. I did have a good working relationship with State's RSO (Regional Security Officer). He was ex-FBI. Not sure whether that was positive or negative.
But good point about looking for the right answer. I sent a gun home from overseas--following the post-1968 GCA rules--rather than just hiding it in my household goods. Got stuck in Customs in New York. Meanwhile, I was back in Iowa, and no one could tell me how to retrieve it--including the people who should have known. It all worked out, part luck and part effort. And I didn't even have to pay the money Customs said they were charging me for storage.
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I don't know if your plan is flawed or not, but I do know that when I have turned to internet forums, American's, in particular, are so anxious to be as negative as possible that they provide drastically, flat-out-wrong information. I hate to say it, but go elsewhere for your information.
In your case, the BATF MAY be the right place, and not just one local officer, but move up the food chain some, is what you want to check with. In my case, I wanted to export gun parts, and the info on forums was uniformly WRONG. Then the BATF was also wrong - BATF has ZERO jurisdiction but two different field offices didn't even know that! The third field office knew they didn't have jurisdiction but didn't know who did (true story!). If BATF isn't correct, then it may be Customs. But you gotta find someone that knows and then you have to double check them - cuz they might not know they don't know.
In my case, the solution came from emailing a US senator and they put me on to the State Department and there, the answer was crystal clear. Actually, he got exactly what he needed to know, right here. Darned negative Americans. Best, Ted
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I put an M1 carbine, a Browning auto 12 gauge shotgun w/30" barrels, and a 308 Mauser bolt action rifle that I'd won in a raffle at the 10th SFG in Germany in 1967 into the bottom of my "State Department" shipment to Pakistan in 1975. Sold them all there.
In 1980 I put a Hawken .50 Caliber muzzle loader, a Remington 870, and a Smith and Wesson .357 gigantic revolver that I'd bought in Alabama when I came back from Vietnam in 1968 into my shipment to Africa... I brought the 870 back with me at the bottom of the same trunks.
I put the 870 into to bottom of the trunks along with powder, and reloading machine, and 1,000 caps going to India in 1988. Brought the 870 along with a William Evans .20 bore back with us to Athens then to the USA at the bottom of the trunks.
I took the 870 to Italy in 1996. and back in 1998. No permission.
In 2007 I bought a Haji 12 gauge wall hanger in Pakistan...homemade hammer gun with brass retaining rings covered in Urdu or Pashtu Quranic inscriptions. put the barrels in one bag, the receiver in another, flew from Islamabad to Chicago and never had a question asked.
I sent maybe a dozen Pashtu copies of Martini-Henry's home from Afghanistan along with 6 Enfield muzzle loaders..now beloved by the War Between the States reenactment crowd. (Scr*w that "civil war" stuff) ATF was very helpful... And sent a Long Lee Enfield haji'd up as well.
ATF will work with you. England..there will always be an England - the origin of our 2nd Amendment...maybe not.
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