Glad to know we are not the only ones with stupid firearms laws.
I remember as a teenager openly carrying one of my rifles in public (in a gun bag tho) through the streets to go shooting at local farms. Made a good bit of business out of it too. Got paid £1.00 off the farmer for every rabbit (vermin controlled as there was the miximitosis outbreak and these were dairy farms)
Guy I knew was in a wild west society and bought all my skins to make clothing etc!
Good times. Never get away with the rifle thing now!
About the deactivated weapons, I'm a 're enactors and own many rifles, machine guns, mortars and an airborne 6 pounder AT gun.
I always treat my weapons as live firearms.
They are all stripped and cleaned, normally during a show for the public.
Use of trigger etiquette also, safety on all the time, point the barrel down and drop the mag and check the chamber if letting the public handle it.
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