I am looking for a verifier

The verifiers net still exists, but it is not going to be maintained or built up on. While the businesses can verify, many will not do guns that are not part of their inventory. Like the guy at my local gunstore said...there are likely 20, 000 guns in the area and he's not going to verify them all.
The guys who presently are qualified verifiers can continue to do so, alhtough by what I hear, they cannot verify restricted guns that aren't registered.
I just had a bunch of guns verified (so they could be registered) this morning by my local firearms officer. He has always been happy to do so, and is paid for his troubles at that.

Most verifyers became so only to get their collections built up as they out unpapered guns - ask me how I know?

Nice haul for $1200!

All my rifles are registered as of this morning but two of them!( The first two Martinis). Thank you Soldat for the helpful information on being prepared. I did it over the phone verification and did the online registration/confirmation right after. Very easy even for a first timer like me. They still gave me registration codes for the old Martini's. Of the four I have, one was registered as an antique, one is converted to .22 so that was classed as a non-restricted of course and the other two Martini's I will have to bring to a gun shop or a club and have someone verify in person. The lady on th phone cound't figure it out, she passed me to a "military specialist" and he suggested that would be best if someone saw it first hand.
Thank you everyone for your help and input.

Sincerely Mike...Off to clean em' up!

Glad to hear it went well, Mike. :thup: Did you ask at all about the verifiers?

If you're looking to sell any of the No 1's let me know. I'm looking for a decent shooter SMLE.:)

Take care,
Stevo

The Martini second from the bottom appears to have the cocking indicator in wrong...and the others appear to be "cocked"...they should be left stored in the fired position....just a comment...they do look nice. Dave

FWIW, if the muzzle opening is .450" or bigger, don't register them. All martinis were made before 1897 and anything over 9mm (.357") doesn;t need registration if it's single-shot.

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Originally Posted by Dante

The Martini second from the bottom appears to have the cocking indicator in wrong...and the others appear to be "cocked"...they should be left stored in the fired position....just a comment...they do look nice. Dave

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Thank you for pointing that out, this was my first time handling these, I had no prior experience or knowledge with these. I will be buying Martini literature shortly. And I corrected the situation...thank you kindly!

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Originally Posted by Claven2

FWIW, if the muzzle opening is .450" or bigger, don't register them. All martinis were made before 1897 and anything over 9mm (.357") doesn;t need registration if it's single-shot.

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I've been indicated this a few times, I will measure the muzzle opening of my other two. The two Maritinis I registered yesterday, one was classed as an antique, probably for that reason I assume, and the other a converted .22 was classified a non-restricted.

P.S. Steveo, I was too excited and forgot to ask about a verifier in my area. I will be phoning them again shortly.

saw your thread on CGN

again nice haul, you just got yourself a nice collection of british military service rifles.

OK call me stupid, but, I have to ask, What the heck is a Verifier? I've never heard the expression before. Is this a registration or something like that?-SDH