Some Guns From My Collection (bandwidth warning)

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Originally Posted by DamageW

When they changed the UK Firearms law in 1996 to ban all pistols from private ownership, he had to hand them - and all the other pistols, including his cherished 1911 - in to the police to be destroyed. They wouldn't even pay compensation.

Really? I remember hearing that the government did pay compensation to former pistol owners, but that they didn't FULLY compensate many of them for the actual value of their guns. On the SIG Forum, we had a guy from the U.K. who said he received £150 for his SIG P228, which he had bought for £600.

Also, I understand that there was also the option of having them deactivated and sent to one of the Proof Houses to be certified as meeting the deactivation standards?