Indians For Guns

Okay this must have happened to a few people at least but I am wondering if it happens to me what I should be doing.

Supposing in your village house you found a brace of shotguns that belonged to gandpa and he had a license for them that had expired in say the early eighties.

What are your options besides walking away and leaving them as you found em? Supposing you have a rifle license and these were say a 12 bore and something else.

Any ideas?

Regards,

Dev

Best option would be to inform the licensing authority about the gun, deposit it in a gun shop, get a license made for the bore in ur name & then get it transferred it in ur name.

Going by your track record, I guess you will take the route suggested by Khastriya.

For me, I shall keep one and sell the rest.

Dev,
There is a post from Abhijeet on similar situation which my family is facing. As suggested earlier the gun needs to be deposited with a gun house and Abhijeet's recommendation was to have relevant family members notarize and state that this gun can be transferred to you as a heirloom / inheritance and then you can apply for the lic. FYI

Regards

Sounds Good Dev, Congrats and go for it!
best
Axx

Of course it hasn`t happened yet has it Dev ?
Can`t help wondering what the `something else` might be.........You`ll have to let us know when you find the guns......................
Good on yer mate.

What Dev has described is not that uncommon an experience.

One stash that came up a few years ago included a Midland Gun Company 12 bore SXS hammer gun, a locally made muzzle loader, a Mossberg .22lr rifle and an old BSA Airsporter air-rifle.

Understandably, all the guns barring the Airsporter were thrown into the river.

Mack The Knife

Well you caught me Grumpy okay six years ago in my native place a cousin reminded me about Grandpa's shikar history. So I said yes I had been conned by him for many years about his revolver which my uncle found after a 20 year search and now owns.

And then the guy said that he knew that two shotguns were lying inside so and so almirah in the shillong bungalow. They were a 12 gauge and a .410. English made by a Manchester gun maker family. So I was tempted but have walked away from the scenario. One uncle will probably follow through.

I don't even the difference between box lock and side lock so I'll soothe my pain by writing about my Qb's performance at the range.

Regards,

Dev.

Grumpy";p="5012 wrote: Of course it hasn`t happened yet has it Dev ?
Can`t help wondering what the `something else` might be.........You`ll have to let us know when you find the guns......................
Good on yer mate.

A Manchester gunmaking family ? Stensbys by any chance ?
The guns are almost certainly boxlocks - is the .410 a side by side double barrel ? If it is grab it quick - .410 doubles make ridiculous money !
Stensbys still exist but are owned by a pair of brothers with a name other than Stensby. A really nice old-fashioned gunshop with the proprietors being gloriously eccentric - very pleasant and very helpful though.
A lot of the guns hanging on the walls of the shop are not for sale - they are the owners `pension fund` !
The guns will be Birmingham made trade guns made for Stensby ( if they are Stensbys that is ) but will be good quality. Stensbys often had the guns made for them very nicely engraved.

Talking about "stumbling upon" long forgotten guns - a dear friend who is a conservation architect by profession, was heading a palace renovation project for an ex-Maharaja (I won't name who, just that this was somewhere in Punjab).

One day, a room that had been locked for years (probably more like decades), was unlocked by him, as part of this renovation project - and he was stunned! It was full of swords, lances and guns of all descriptions - matchlocks, flintlocks, shotguns, rifles... even small cannon! Anyhow, he quietly relocked the room, told the retainer who had accompanied him to inform the owner - and then he gave me a call... Knowing full well that I would be kicking myself for not being there to witness this grand collection!

Anyhow, AFAIK the room is still there as are the guns - still locked & "almost" forgotten... A small fortune to be made from the stuff in that room, if the owner ever gets around to liquidating his treasures that is...

Cheers!
Abhijeet

It is a side by side but I don't know the condition. I will check up the name by today evening after calling my uncle. But I'm not sure about getting a license for a .410 . Isn't it a prohibited bore over here from what I recall about the.303 muskets that the cops use. I will however see what I can do legally to grab it now that you tell me that it may aid my piggy bank.

Regards,

Dev

Grumpy";p="5054 wrote: A Manchester gunmaking family ? Stensbys by any chance ?
The guns are almost certainly boxlocks - is the .410 a side by side double barrel ? If it is grab it quick - .410 doubles make ridiculous money !
Stensbys still exist but are owned by a pair of brothers with a name other than Stensby. A really nice old-fashioned gunshop with the proprietors being gloriously eccentric - very pleasant and very helpful though.
A lot of the guns hanging on the walls of the shop are not for sale - they are the owners `pension fund` !
The guns will be Birmingham made trade guns made for Stensby ( if they are Stensbys that is ) but will be good quality. Stensbys often had the guns made for them very nicely engraved.