Some changes in Ammunition availability can move a true Antique Gun from one category to another here in the UK. In my study I have had a pinfire double shot gun built about 1840 hanging from bookshelf brackets for the last fifty years will post a picture if I can find one. The Firearms officers who come and check once in a while that I am keeping my licenced guns in a secure manner have payed no attention to my pinfire wall hanger other than it being a quaint old relic until my last visit. Things have now changed so I am told because there is a small company in France commercially manufacturing pinfire shotgun cartridges at vast expense though, and this now puts my pinfire wall hanger in very strange position. Before this company started manufacturing the gun was classed as obsolete with no ammunition available just being a curio. But now If I intend to shoot it must be recorded on my shotgun certificate as a working gun. But if I have no intention to shoot the gun I can still keep it as a curio. BUT IT CAN NOT NOW BE A WALL HANGER UNLESS IT IS DEACTIVATED TO HOME OFFICE STANDARDS what ever they are, and now be kept locked up in a secure place. So it is heads they win tails I loose.
