Ah, yes....... I was involved as an expert witness in the (?) court case that caused the flash eliminators (FE's) to be pinned on! I won't go into the details but someone was prosecuted for having a FE - that he'd taken off a deactivated L1 rifle! Well, you either CAN have it or you CAN'T and democratic law tells you what you CANNOT do as opposed to the other alternative, that of laws that tell you what you CAN do.

Anyway, they lost the case due to a totally alien concept of, well, everything relating to the case. Great costs awarded but afterwards, FE's were pinned on! Quite WHO changed the law or rules is a bit of a mystery. But as it stands, if you did remove your pinned flash eliminator and then possess a 'firearm' as defined, you could go down the pan for 5 years on the say so of........., well, WHO? Any guesses.........

You foreigners from the colonies or those wild antipodeans can ignore this as it will seem as though some of the law makers and enforcers here are not on the same orbitory planet as the rest of mankind...........