Quote Originally Posted by Beerhunter View Post
BTW, as a collector, you do need to show bona fides and I wholeheartedly agree with that requirement.
Beerhunter - Thanks for the input. "bona fides" - Yes, I agree and on examining the wording in the legislation this is the difficult one. With 30 years or so shooting and collecting behind me I might convince myself that I am a genuine collector, but as a beginner with little knowledge or experience am I perhaps using the collecting aspect to attain many firearms just for the sake of it?. But if that were the case, why would I be looking at all the reloading data, wasting hundreds of hours of my time reading this forum, spending thousands of pounds that I can never re-coup on training, memberships and lumps of scrap iron and wood.
The easy option would be to give up the fight, get a few modern rifles and pistols and forget about collecting. But I enjoy it, I love the rifles, I enjoy this forum without which I doubt I would ever have embarked upon collecting and I have found this the most absorbing hobby I have ever had.
But ONLY for one year so far!.
So is that "bona fides"?. I just don't know. Am I a collector?. I just don't know.
How does one know if they are a collector???.