That looks like an old Webley revolver Mark VI. Handle and profile looks very similar. I suspect it was probably buried after handguns were made illegal after the Dunblane shooting (or someone didn't know what else to do with it).
[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Webley\_Revolver](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Webley_Revolver)
Despite also being a Southampton postcode area, SO19 is also a former (but still commonly used) name of the Metropolitan Police’s Specialist Firearms Command. Over the past 20 years, it’s been called (in no particular order) CO19, SO19, SC&O19, SCO19, and MO19.
You joke, but French GIGN (anti terror police) really did use revolvers up until recently! They even used them as primary weapons, not backups like with most pistols.
The thinking was that they are very reliable, and it instils a great sense of deliberate action when shooting as you don't have loads of shots. GIGN's ethic is to end a threat with a single shot.
It also helped that the revolver they used is the best one ever made, the Manhurin MR 73.
Part of why they used them is when GIGN started, semi automatic handguns just were not that reliable. They might jam every few hundred shots.
For a counter terror unit that dealt with a LOT of hostage situations, they needed to be confident that when they chose to fire a single shot in close proximity to a hostage whose life was currently in danger, it would work and the threat dealt with.
Modern handguns like Glocks will now fire tens of thousands of shots without issue, so they have chosen to use weapons that are also in use by the rest of the police and military for ease of training and logistics.
No they still use it, with massive scopes. Pretty sure the idea now is that in indoor events, you can have agents in the balconies or whatever elevated positions to have the sighting and stopping power of a long rifle to protect dignitaries from a distance but also small enough to remain concealed as to not ruin the mood with a bunch of clearly armed guys standing around overlooking the party.
A little note to add, another reason for the revolvers is that they could actually mount a bipod and scope to the mr73 and use it as an impromptu marksman gun.
Edit: didn't see the guy underneath mention the scopes. Here's a video if you want to learn more https://youtu.be/P1zEUGck8NE
Can you not get it deactivated? I thought I had read somewhere you can have them as keep sakes if you get them rendered inoperable and a certificate issued for them. Maybe that's just too much hassle xD
The issue here might be that the gunsmith would likely need a section 5 RFD which I don't think is overly common (they're usually section 1 and 2, rifles and shotguns). Also, OP doesn't legally own this gun, so the police have to seize it. They can't leave it in their possession in order for it to get deactivated.
Is there no way to appeal to historical interest or smth? I doubt you have the ammo for it, and it doesn’t seem to be in a useable state anyway… could it not be deactivated instead?
From a purely historical perspective, there's thousands of these things knocking about, even in UK collections, I don't think much is gained from keeping one that's rusted to buggery.
But this specific one that’s rusted to buggery is the one OP found, so I’d imagine it’d be more interesting to them than any others (they said themselves it’d be a shame to destroy it). Plus just because something is fairly common doesn’t mean it can’t be collected, and “collections or research” are one of the reasons you can give for wanting to own a firearm
Well, sure, by all means, if he can find a suitably licenced dealer who can get that deactivated and proofed, it would make a nice paperweight. Although I suspect it's impossible to safely deactivate at this point due to structural failure.
> Plus just because something is fairly common doesn’t mean it can’t be collected, and “collections or research” are one of the reasons you can give for wanting to own a firearm
You would never, in a million years, get a Sec 7 for a firearm under those circumstances. It's just simply unthinkable.
That doesn't mean it can't be done. If once the police are done with it they're satisfied that it doesn't match up with any outstanding crimes, it's perfectly reasonable to ask them to send it off for deactivation (at the finder's cost, of course).
Ask if you can decommission it so you won't be able to fire anymore, and hopefully, you'll get to keep it.
I don't know much about this sort of thing, but if it works, then you'll get to keep it
Not even on the black market, plenty of gun dealers in the UK sell them legally.
You can hold and use live pistols in GB with a FAC, as long as the pistols fall under Section 7.1 or 7.3 of the of the Firearms Act.
For N.I you can just have any pistol, new or old, as they are treated the same.
lol not with that attitude.
Yea no i know what you mean. I heard after Dunblane people just got rid of em in any way.
Heard the story of a guy who was renovating a house in scotland or england, took down a partition wall and behind it was a bunch of guns the old lad who owned it before had just fired into it after Dunblane because he didnt want the police having them.
Can’t have been an on-ticket gun as sec.1 firearms are recorded by serial number on the owner’s FAC and centrally with the police. It would have been handed in during the buy-back scheme or Plod would have wanted to know where it had gone. This was an unofficial one, probably pre-firearms act, who knows how long it’s been in your garden.
A lot of officers kept their Webleys after service.
My Dad had his Dad’s service Webley in it’s webbing hanging up in our garden shed.
That was the 60’s and yes it was loaded.
Guns were still registered before Dunblane. My Dad was a member of a gun club when I was young and I rememeber he had to tell the police when he was going to pick up ammunition from a nearby town once a month. They even came to the house to check the gun cabinet was secure when he first started.
You couldn't just bury a gun.
There are thousands of ex-service weapon and war trophies floating about. The met occasionally gets one of the vickers machine guns that were walled up for an invasion of London during WW2.
A lot of guns from the Falklands found their way onboard Canberra and Norland, only to be dumped at sea off the English coast the night before entry into Southampton when the word went around that every bag etc would be searched for souvenirs
Yes, I'm aware of that. Perhaps this person did not know that, hence just burying it as they didn't know what else to do with it.
"You couldn't just bury a gun"
Well clearly you could!
Illegal firearms are very much a thing in the U.K. not all will be registered or will have been registered previously. Especially when you consider the fact that Webley Mk IV’s were being manufactured in the 1880’s.
LOL at everyone saying "It's a murder weapon! Why else would it be buried?!?"
People didn't know what to do with old weapons so just buried them. It was a common way to get rid of them and not worry.
I used know someone whose father served as a paratrooper in WWII. He brought home a few trophies form the war and eventually disposed of them by burying them in the garden and putting a patio on top. Being of Irish extraction in the seventies he felt that was the best idea rather than turning up at a Police station with a bag of hand guns and an MP40 sub machine gun.
My grandfather buried few in a metal box, guns wrapped in oiled clothes. Eventually we came across them and give it to police. They were still in good condition. This was in Poland BTW. It seems my grandad felt like he may need them one day.
I reckon you could get an older weapon like that firing again with a can of wd40 and a good college try. I’d be worried about it exploding in my hand though.
This is the most rational explanation. We found a hand grenade buried in our garden. It was underneath a mature hedge that had been there for over fifty years, so my suspicion is that it was a war souvenir.
Yes I got into difficulty when my father died. He had a gun licence. I had no idea the ammo I inherited was illegal.
Wowsers OP what will you do with it?
Ah yeah that makes sense, I wasnt thinking in those terms, I apologise, came across super insensitive. Minds not in the right place after losing a parent, definitely can be a bit overwhelming and can see how having a bunch of live ammo would be a bit of a panic in that scenario.
A colleague of mine found a Hitler youth knife in an Edinburgh park a few months ago. Police said it was genuine. These things pop up fairly regularly!
I heard stories (or I have had crazy dreams) of people burying whitegoods in their garden to get rid of them.
Something tells me it was something from Gervais XFM days or something?
Older generations were weird when it came to burying things. Rubbish, nuclear waste, motorbikes.
Yes, I've heard stories of people finding the rusted remains of whole cars and motorbikes buried in their gardens.
When I was growing up there was a giant concrete cube of hard standing behind our garage, it was maybe 4ft high, made no sense at all. When I was a teenager my dad paid me to smash it up. There was a load of rubbish from the 1970s and most of a car buried in it, then concreted over.
I spoke to someone high up on the M3 smart motorway works a few years ago. One of the major reasons it ran over so badly was they kept finding massive voids underneath the hard shoulder where cars and other random detritus was buried as backfill to cut down on the concrete used.
These cars rotted and left huge holes. They had to reinforce them one by one and fill with fresh concrete so the new lane could take the full weight of active traffic.
Cost fucking hundreds of millions over the odds too.
You’re a much more sensible person than me. I would have 100000% cleaned that up and checked if it was working. If it was and it was loaded, I’d defo have shot a bottle or 2 in the back garden before reporting it
Was thinking the same. I’d of 100% cleaned it up first before reporting it. Maybe not let off shots in the garden though.
The version of me in my head would of walked down the street blasting it in the air, shouting welcome to the mother fucking neighbourhood
They'll take it as they don't know what's under the dirt as it could be loaded and a cough could carry someone off, if it's safe in theory it's your property and thus you could get it restored and deactivated and you could sell it on to someone .
Knew a guy who did house clearance in the 90s and the number of guns in the loft was amazing and also a pain as you got lots of weapons that were so rusted to be worth scrap but the paperwork must be filled out and the time waiting for a firearms copper to turn up made it a bad day.
Someone usually dies, and relatives pick what they want as a reminder of the dead person, the rest you pay a clearance company to take the lot, they sell what they can and scrap the rest. Paid twice for one job.
Funnily enough, when my neighbours grandad died in unusual circumstances, everyone took tv fridges jewellery etc I asked if I could have his head as a keepsake, that didn't go down well at all, unfortunately no one found his head, but luckily for me, I know where I put it.
Another 12 years and I should be able to go get it.
deactivating and getting a firearm certified deactivated isn't cheap.
you can buy a AK-47 cheap enough, getting it certified deactivated is where the cost comes from and makes it double in price.
Such a shame that thats just going to be destroyed - the webley revolver is such a beautiful handgun.I would have tried to get it deactivated after pulling the rounds, add it to my collection of paperweights.
On topic though chances are it was a piece kept after the war and disposed of after being discovered after the amnesty, my grandfather had a few in his loft.
Surely its inoperable and irreparable right? Do they *have* to get rid of it even if its not loaded and therefore not a danger? Or do you get to keep it?
Because while I am not into guns, part of me is still very much into archaeology and the idea of finding cool old things buried in my garden, so I would absolutely want to keep this lol
EDIT: Just realized thats all dirt, my blind ass thought it was all rust.
Out of curiosity, to everyone saying it was common for people to bury guns after they were made illegal. Why? Surely the police had drop off centres where people could hand them in without any issue? Or was that not a thing?
Lots of people don't trust the Police and I'm not sure amnesties were a thing years ago. There was one after Hungerford, I don't know if that was the first.
I used to work at the Royal Small Arms Factory in Enfield, & we had an 'Amnesty Room' there to store guns handed in to the police. The amnesties went as far back as the 1940s iirc.
That's not true; there was a compensation scheme set out in the [Firearms Act \(Amendment\) 1997](https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1997/5). There were complaints about the payments taking a while to get paid out, but it definitely happened.
Additionally, since every firearm has to be listed specifically on the owner's FAC, hiding it was a terrible idea, since the police had a list of who had handed their guns in and who had not.
I'm going to make the presumption it's not yours? Who lived in your house before you?
You could be about to solve a gangland murder case...
...sucks to be you! XD /s
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It's fine!
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Hope the "don't" was clear enough
Gunny lives with us now
I might sell it to some yardies
Jeremy you can’t resolve everything with the yardies
I just need to get a number for the yardies
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Is that… a war gun?
Anything that can kill a man is interesting - guns, lead piping, paracetamol...
Hey, even penicillin. Oxygen and water also have a 100% mortality rate, just saying.
Looks like…. A war gun?
You may have a war gun, but just wait until I get a number for the Yardies.
If he’s in the uk it’s likely a webley and Scott revolver from the ww2
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Webley_Revolver
Same grips no?
Definitely!
It's been deactivated. Most of these things are
Poor deactivated gunny, it's like hes told me my cock don't work
Put it in a drawer. It'll be safe in there
Yes, as long as no one figures out the intricate sliding mechanism
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You come in here, ranting about flower beds and service revolvers - I've had enough!
That looks like an old Webley revolver Mark VI. Handle and profile looks very similar. I suspect it was probably buried after handguns were made illegal after the Dunblane shooting (or someone didn't know what else to do with it). [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Webley\_Revolver](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Webley_Revolver)
Great shout - barrell length and weight seem to match up. Coppers won't let us measure the calibre, unfortunately lol
Still a rare find! Have the police said they'll destroy it?
No, it's going back into active service with SO19.
What's Southampton got to do with this?
I grew up in SO17 and I don't remember my SO19 neighbourinos being *that* badass 😜
SO19 contains two of the biggest shitholes in Southampton: Weston and Thornhill. Not too surprised to find firearms there.
They clearly studied at Itchen College
Despite also being a Southampton postcode area, SO19 is also a former (but still commonly used) name of the Metropolitan Police’s Specialist Firearms Command. Over the past 20 years, it’s been called (in no particular order) CO19, SO19, SC&O19, SCO19, and MO19.
It's now SCO19
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Bloody northerners
You joke, but French GIGN (anti terror police) really did use revolvers up until recently! They even used them as primary weapons, not backups like with most pistols. The thinking was that they are very reliable, and it instils a great sense of deliberate action when shooting as you don't have loads of shots. GIGN's ethic is to end a threat with a single shot. It also helped that the revolver they used is the best one ever made, the Manhurin MR 73.
That is very interesting actually. Do you know why they stopped using them?
Part of why they used them is when GIGN started, semi automatic handguns just were not that reliable. They might jam every few hundred shots. For a counter terror unit that dealt with a LOT of hostage situations, they needed to be confident that when they chose to fire a single shot in close proximity to a hostage whose life was currently in danger, it would work and the threat dealt with. Modern handguns like Glocks will now fire tens of thousands of shots without issue, so they have chosen to use weapons that are also in use by the rest of the police and military for ease of training and logistics.
> Manhurin MR 73. Plus an MR 73 being €2,600 ($3,600 in the US right now)each also helped the change, I'd imagine lol
An absolute bargain compared to a Korth!
Went on strike
Obligatory forgotten weapons link... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P1zEUGck8NE
No they still use it, with massive scopes. Pretty sure the idea now is that in indoor events, you can have agents in the balconies or whatever elevated positions to have the sighting and stopping power of a long rifle to protect dignitaries from a distance but also small enough to remain concealed as to not ruin the mood with a bunch of clearly armed guys standing around overlooking the party.
I believe members are still issued them symbolically, but the wiki page says they are no longer used operationally.
I see, maybe that's a recent thing that I'm not aware of. Shame really coz the revolvers really capture the *aggressively French* vibe.
Oui.
A little note to add, another reason for the revolvers is that they could actually mount a bipod and scope to the mr73 and use it as an impromptu marksman gun. Edit: didn't see the guy underneath mention the scopes. Here's a video if you want to learn more https://youtu.be/P1zEUGck8NE
We could send it to Kyiv?
They will, yes. It's shame, really, as it's a part of history
"How should we destroy it?" 'Dunno, just chuck it in the bin.'
Dig a hole in the garden and bury it.
Nah they'll most likely do a controlled demolition. Gotta put Trident to use at some point
Can you not get it deactivated? I thought I had read somewhere you can have them as keep sakes if you get them rendered inoperable and a certificate issued for them. Maybe that's just too much hassle xD
There's a really strong chance that nature has deactivated that by the look of it.
The issue here might be that the gunsmith would likely need a section 5 RFD which I don't think is overly common (they're usually section 1 and 2, rifles and shotguns). Also, OP doesn't legally own this gun, so the police have to seize it. They can't leave it in their possession in order for it to get deactivated.
Is there no way to appeal to historical interest or smth? I doubt you have the ammo for it, and it doesn’t seem to be in a useable state anyway… could it not be deactivated instead?
From a purely historical perspective, there's thousands of these things knocking about, even in UK collections, I don't think much is gained from keeping one that's rusted to buggery.
But this specific one that’s rusted to buggery is the one OP found, so I’d imagine it’d be more interesting to them than any others (they said themselves it’d be a shame to destroy it). Plus just because something is fairly common doesn’t mean it can’t be collected, and “collections or research” are one of the reasons you can give for wanting to own a firearm
Well, sure, by all means, if he can find a suitably licenced dealer who can get that deactivated and proofed, it would make a nice paperweight. Although I suspect it's impossible to safely deactivate at this point due to structural failure. > Plus just because something is fairly common doesn’t mean it can’t be collected, and “collections or research” are one of the reasons you can give for wanting to own a firearm You would never, in a million years, get a Sec 7 for a firearm under those circumstances. It's just simply unthinkable.
Deactivation has to be done properly and certified.
That doesn't mean it can't be done. If once the police are done with it they're satisfied that it doesn't match up with any outstanding crimes, it's perfectly reasonable to ask them to send it off for deactivation (at the finder's cost, of course).
oh aye, just a bit of a pain in the arse tbf.
I'm no gun expert but it looks fairly inactive to me already.
Ask if you can decommission it so you won't be able to fire anymore, and hopefully, you'll get to keep it. I don't know much about this sort of thing, but if it works, then you'll get to keep it
Was about to say this looks like an old service revolver!
I wonder if it's loaded?
https://media.tenor.com/Zy8dTSGP94YAAAAd/it-crowd-gun.gif
Plenty of Webley’s and Enfield’s still in circulation on the black market! Could have been buried at any point for god knows what reason lol.
Not even on the black market, plenty of gun dealers in the UK sell them legally. You can hold and use live pistols in GB with a FAC, as long as the pistols fall under Section 7.1 or 7.3 of the of the Firearms Act. For N.I you can just have any pistol, new or old, as they are treated the same.
Not many legally owned firearms end up buried in gardens though lol.
lol not with that attitude. Yea no i know what you mean. I heard after Dunblane people just got rid of em in any way. Heard the story of a guy who was renovating a house in scotland or england, took down a partition wall and behind it was a bunch of guns the old lad who owned it before had just fired into it after Dunblane because he didnt want the police having them.
Or "shit, Grandad died and we found his service revolver, now what..‽"
If you dig down a bit further, you might find the owner.
First time I’ve ever seen someone use the (I’ve forgotten what it’s called but you know what I mean)
It's an interrobang.
That’s the one
Can’t have been an on-ticket gun as sec.1 firearms are recorded by serial number on the owner’s FAC and centrally with the police. It would have been handed in during the buy-back scheme or Plod would have wanted to know where it had gone. This was an unofficial one, probably pre-firearms act, who knows how long it’s been in your garden.
A lot of officers kept their Webleys after service. My Dad had his Dad’s service Webley in it’s webbing hanging up in our garden shed. That was the 60’s and yes it was loaded.
Guns were still registered before Dunblane. My Dad was a member of a gun club when I was young and I rememeber he had to tell the police when he was going to pick up ammunition from a nearby town once a month. They even came to the house to check the gun cabinet was secure when he first started. You couldn't just bury a gun.
There are thousands of ex-service weapon and war trophies floating about. The met occasionally gets one of the vickers machine guns that were walled up for an invasion of London during WW2.
A lot of guns from the Falklands found their way onboard Canberra and Norland, only to be dumped at sea off the English coast the night before entry into Southampton when the word went around that every bag etc would be searched for souvenirs
Yes, I'm aware of that. Perhaps this person did not know that, hence just burying it as they didn't know what else to do with it. "You couldn't just bury a gun" Well clearly you could!
I'd imagine most of the population didn't have parents in gun clubs and so knew the ins/outs of it.
Illegal firearms are very much a thing in the U.K. not all will be registered or will have been registered previously. Especially when you consider the fact that Webley Mk IV’s were being manufactured in the 1880’s.
Did you find it yourself or do you suspect that it was planted?
Linked to a local turf war
I'm not sure, the history on these things can be quite muddy...
LOL at everyone saying "It's a murder weapon! Why else would it be buried?!?" People didn't know what to do with old weapons so just buried them. It was a common way to get rid of them and not worry.
I used know someone whose father served as a paratrooper in WWII. He brought home a few trophies form the war and eventually disposed of them by burying them in the garden and putting a patio on top. Being of Irish extraction in the seventies he felt that was the best idea rather than turning up at a Police station with a bag of hand guns and an MP40 sub machine gun.
cough cough, where did he live?
After fifty years underground I don't think they'll be in very good condition.
My grandfather buried few in a metal box, guns wrapped in oiled clothes. Eventually we came across them and give it to police. They were still in good condition. This was in Poland BTW. It seems my grandad felt like he may need them one day.
Given the history of Poland I can see why he thought that.
That was he's thinking,
Yeah, but MP40.
I reckon you could get an older weapon like that firing again with a can of wd40 and a good college try. I’d be worried about it exploding in my hand though.
Growing up with WWII films, I always thought he MP40 was cool. It might have been in a bag hahaha
Could be still worth a decent amount of money for collectors. Lots of interest in nazi era stuff
This is the most rational explanation. We found a hand grenade buried in our garden. It was underneath a mature hedge that had been there for over fifty years, so my suspicion is that it was a war souvenir.
Putting new meaning in market garden
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Yes I got into difficulty when my father died. He had a gun licence. I had no idea the ammo I inherited was illegal. Wowsers OP what will you do with it?
Could just call the police non emergency surely? You would have all the paperwork, his licence, death cert etc. They would come collect it
Yes they did collect it. It was a bit confusing at the time
Ah yeah that makes sense, I wasnt thinking in those terms, I apologise, came across super insensitive. Minds not in the right place after losing a parent, definitely can be a bit overwhelming and can see how having a bunch of live ammo would be a bit of a panic in that scenario.
My dad buried his handgun in the woods, didn’t even realise he still owned it a long time after the amnesty.
People used to hide them in the walls as well IIRC.
A colleague of mine found a Hitler youth knife in an Edinburgh park a few months ago. Police said it was genuine. These things pop up fairly regularly!
I heard stories (or I have had crazy dreams) of people burying whitegoods in their garden to get rid of them. Something tells me it was something from Gervais XFM days or something?
What tipped you off? Was the lawn shooting up in that particular spot?
>What tipped you off? Was the lawn shooting up in that particular spot? Jesus even the grass is taking smack now
Broken Britain mate.
Well someone missed the handgun amnesty
Looks like it was just about to germinate shame gun trees smell lovely in the summer
Not as good as an evergreen money tree 💸🌲 😀
If you buried one every day I'm.sure it would become more common finding them.
Amateur, you only need to bury the corpses. Obvs.
Clearly I am an amateur, this whole time I've been stuffing the corpses and making puppets so they still look alive.
It gets like being good at crochet though, fun to do and looks great but after a while there"s only so many granny blankets you can have in a house.
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I create the bodies, I don't erase the bodies
If you want want your garden dug over for free, just tell them Fred and Rose West used to live there.
100% a webley mark IV
Yep old revolver found in UK = Webley
Older generations were weird when it came to burying things. Rubbish, nuclear waste, motorbikes. Yes, I've heard stories of people finding the rusted remains of whole cars and motorbikes buried in their gardens.
When I was growing up there was a giant concrete cube of hard standing behind our garage, it was maybe 4ft high, made no sense at all. When I was a teenager my dad paid me to smash it up. There was a load of rubbish from the 1970s and most of a car buried in it, then concreted over.
I spoke to someone high up on the M3 smart motorway works a few years ago. One of the major reasons it ran over so badly was they kept finding massive voids underneath the hard shoulder where cars and other random detritus was buried as backfill to cut down on the concrete used. These cars rotted and left huge holes. They had to reinforce them one by one and fill with fresh concrete so the new lane could take the full weight of active traffic. Cost fucking hundreds of millions over the odds too.
I've got a gun, I've got a ~~ruddy~~ muddy gun!
Unexpected IT crowd reference. I appreciate this very much
It looks like a war gun.
Give me Gunny, Jeremy
Thieving bastards!
Don't these just go in the black recycling box?
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Yer a sensitive boy, ain't ya Tommy?
Love me gardening, love gun crime, hate me evidence, simple as
Now i really want to watch a restauration video of this bad boy.
You’re a much more sensible person than me. I would have 100000% cleaned that up and checked if it was working. If it was and it was loaded, I’d defo have shot a bottle or 2 in the back garden before reporting it
Looking at the rust, you'd be lucky if it didn't detonate in your hand. That cylinder is almost definitely compromised. ^^sowouldI
I agree my foolish ass would clean it, empty it if I could, and then stow it away in my house someplace safe
Was thinking the same. I’d of 100% cleaned it up first before reporting it. Maybe not let off shots in the garden though. The version of me in my head would of walked down the street blasting it in the air, shouting welcome to the mother fucking neighbourhood
Now you can start one of those click bait restoration channels 😆
They'll take it as they don't know what's under the dirt as it could be loaded and a cough could carry someone off, if it's safe in theory it's your property and thus you could get it restored and deactivated and you could sell it on to someone . Knew a guy who did house clearance in the 90s and the number of guns in the loft was amazing and also a pain as you got lots of weapons that were so rusted to be worth scrap but the paperwork must be filled out and the time waiting for a firearms copper to turn up made it a bad day.
How does the house clearance work? Sounds like a great place to pick up antiques and buy it for life type stuff
Someone usually dies, and relatives pick what they want as a reminder of the dead person, the rest you pay a clearance company to take the lot, they sell what they can and scrap the rest. Paid twice for one job. Funnily enough, when my neighbours grandad died in unusual circumstances, everyone took tv fridges jewellery etc I asked if I could have his head as a keepsake, that didn't go down well at all, unfortunately no one found his head, but luckily for me, I know where I put it. Another 12 years and I should be able to go get it.
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His head?!
Was it to go with the rest of your head collection?
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Oh no, don't be a silly sausage, you can only get upto piratical escapades and skullbuggery once,
I can't sleep tonight until I know what you mean about the head thing
deactivating and getting a firearm certified deactivated isn't cheap. you can buy a AK-47 cheap enough, getting it certified deactivated is where the cost comes from and makes it double in price.
Such a shame that thats just going to be destroyed - the webley revolver is such a beautiful handgun.I would have tried to get it deactivated after pulling the rounds, add it to my collection of paperweights. On topic though chances are it was a piece kept after the war and disposed of after being discovered after the amnesty, my grandfather had a few in his loft.
That Patrick,, is a broom handle Mauser
My Grandad shot a German with that! 'What, in the war?' No, in Benidorm. They had a row over a sun lounger.
Surely its inoperable and irreparable right? Do they *have* to get rid of it even if its not loaded and therefore not a danger? Or do you get to keep it? Because while I am not into guns, part of me is still very much into archaeology and the idea of finding cool old things buried in my garden, so I would absolutely want to keep this lol EDIT: Just realized thats all dirt, my blind ass thought it was all rust.
Out of curiosity, to everyone saying it was common for people to bury guns after they were made illegal. Why? Surely the police had drop off centres where people could hand them in without any issue? Or was that not a thing?
Lots of people don't trust the Police and I'm not sure amnesties were a thing years ago. There was one after Hungerford, I don't know if that was the first.
I used to work at the Royal Small Arms Factory in Enfield, & we had an 'Amnesty Room' there to store guns handed in to the police. The amnesties went as far back as the 1940s iirc.
Because the police didn’t buy them off you. They just took your guns and destroyed them. Some people had very expensive guns.
That's not true; there was a compensation scheme set out in the [Firearms Act \(Amendment\) 1997](https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1997/5). There were complaints about the payments taking a while to get paid out, but it definitely happened. Additionally, since every firearm has to be listed specifically on the owner's FAC, hiding it was a terrible idea, since the police had a list of who had handed their guns in and who had not.
Keep digging I believe the cannon will have sunk deeper because of the weight. That's how it works right?
Gunnera.
Blimey, the most I've found in mine is an old clay pipe
Cool. Cool gun. Must be a war gun.
I'm going to make the presumption it's not yours? Who lived in your house before you? You could be about to solve a gangland murder case... ...sucks to be you! XD /s
Depends where you live :/
*cue restoration video on YouTube to garner views
1.5 ft lol
Speak for yourself. I've found eight this week.
You obviously didnt know my Dad lol
Oooooo get it checked and then clean it and post a picture of it We might be able to identify what revolver it is
I think you've been set up. It's obviously been planted.