CCI Ammunition

[goodboy_mentor]

Now he claims that that was the law and that they have now changed and importing .22LR is legal. Any truth to this?

You may download the Handbook of Procedures Vol. I, 2009-14 from this website of Director General of Foreign Trade http://dgftcom.nic.in/exim/2000/procedu ... ts0910.pdf Go to Para 2.34 of Chapter 2, you will get the answer.

The same is also mentioned on the Customs website at http://www.customsmumbaiairport.gov.in/ ... ?LinkID=67

Might be that there have been some recent changes. You may ask him the specific notification done for amending the above mentioned Para 2.34 of Chapter 2 of the Handbook of Procedures Vol. I, 2009-14 or the law he is talking about.

[Priyan]

Why a lot of the cartridges allowed to be imported are considered obsolete?
By 6.5mm do they mean 6.5×50mm Arisaka or 6.5mm Grendel?

[xl_target]

My best guess is that someone probably went through a book somewhere and looked up a list of cartridges, crossed off those used by government entities and submitted the list for publication.

[mundaire]

My best guess is that someone probably went through a book somewhere and looked up a list of cartridges, crossed off those used by government entities and submitted the list for publication.

The anecdote I heard was that the list of calibres was procured from Dr. Karni Singh of Bikaner, who due to his renown as a shooter of international repute (at the time) was considered as an "expert". Dr. Karni Singh on his part apparently sent them a list of calibres of firearms that he owned, from which they removed some (like .22 LR/ 12 gauge/ .32 S&W Long etc.) and published the rest - this is pure hearsay, I don't have any evidence to back this up, but the way the Govt. Deptt.'s work I can believe it could have been done this way.