Vikram wrote:I need to recall and reread earlier posts.If you do a search on this site, this topic was covered.
ASFAIR, You cannot take your firearm out of the country except for repairs or you are competing in a shooting competition. Re UK,It would help you to enquire with your local licensing officer about procedures to carry your licensed firearm from India.Will try to find out more.
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Vikram
27.2 Under section 17 of the 1988 Act, visitors to Great Britain may, if they are granted the appropriate permit, have in their possession firearms, shot guns or ammunition without holding a certificate. Specifically, they
may have:
a) a visitor’s firearm permit which allows them to have in their possession any firearm, and purchase, acquire or have in their possession any ammunition, to which section 1 of the 1968 Act applies;
b) a visitor’s shot gun permit which allows them to have in their possession, purchase or acquire shot guns (subject
to the restrictions on purchase and acquisition of shot guns with a magazine (see 27.20-27.25 below)). By virtue of
section 5(2)(b) of the 1988 Act, they are exempt from the requirement to produce a shot gun certificate when purchasing ammunition.
27.3 A visitors’ shot gun permit is valid for use throughout Great Britain for a period of up to 12 months, and a visitors’ firearm permit is also similarly valid subject to any territorial condition as to where the firearm may be used (a separate permit for each force area is not required in either case). While it is expected that the permit should only be valid for the duration of the particular visit, there might be circumstances where the police feel
able to issue a pass for a longer period (and this need not be for the full 12 months). A decision will need to be taken to reflect the circumstances of each application, taking account of evidence of planned, future visits and the visitor’s history and character, perhaps on previous shooting trips to this country.
27.4 Visitors from other European Union (EU) states must be in possession of a European Firearms Pass (EFP) in order to be issued with a visitors’ firearm or shot gun permit (see Chapter 29 for more information about these passes). However, an EFP need not be produced if (see also paragraph 29.20): a) the prospective visitor is precluded byreason of residence or other circumstance from being granted an EFP by another EU state; or
b) they are a recognised EU collector ....
27.5 Applications for a visitors’ firearm or shot gun permit will be made by a sponsor to the chief officer of police for the area in which the sponsor resides on the prescribed form of application (form 107) and, in the case of visitors from other EU states, must be accompanied (but see paragraph 29.20) by the visitor’s EFP (section 7(1) of the 1992 Regulations requires the original to be sent to allow the document to be endorsed). In such cases, chief officers should aim to ensure that the application is dealt with as quickly as possible so allowing the original EFP to be returned to the applicant as soon as possible. The sponsor may be a private individual, or may make the pplication as the....
Application
Applications for a visitors’ firearm or shot gun permit will be made by a sponsor to the chief officer of police for the area in which the sponsor resides on the prescribed form of application (form 107) and, in the case of visitors from other EU states, must be accompanied (but see paragraph 29.20) by the visitor’s EFP (section 7(1) of the 1992
Regulations requires the original to be sent to allow the document to be endorsed). In such cases, chief officers should aim to ensure that the application is dealt with as quickly as possible so allowing the original EFP to be
returned to the applicant as soon as possible. The sponsor may be a private individual, or may make the application as the representative of, for example, a club, shooting syndicate, country estate or national shooting organisation. Where the sponsor is a private individual or represents a local shooting organisation, the usual checks should be made as to their bona fides in the same way as for a certificate applicant. Although in most cases private sponsors will themselves be firearm or shot gun certificate holders, this need not necessarily be the case. Particular attention will need to be paid to security arrangements.
VISITORS’ PERMIT PROCEDURES
Dispatch of permits
27.18 The completed permit should be sent to the sponsor who will forward it to the visitor in their country of origin for presentation to HM Customs and Excise on arrival in this country. The visitors’ permit will be accepted in lieu of a Department of Trade and Industry import licence. A visitor must carry their permit with them on leaving
the country for presentation to HM Customs and Excise at the point of departure. An export licence would only be required for onward destinations not covered by the firearms personal effects exception in the Export of Goods (Control) Order (EG(C)O), that is those countries subject to arms embargoes. In some cases, the permit will be
valid for further visits. EU visitors need not declare their firearms to HM Customs and Excise on arrival from, or departure to, another Member State, but must produce their EFP, in which details of their visitor’s permit have been entered, to a HM Customs Officer if asked to do so. Failure to produce the Permit or the EFP would render the
goods liable to detention or seizure.
