Quote Originally Posted by Peter Laidlericon View Post
And you won't believe this you foreign forumers............ Someone, nobody quite knows who, suddenly decreed that a sound moderator for your .22" rifle has to be proofed no less...... Why....? apparently when it is attached to the barrel it forms PART of the barrel, absorbs gas pressure and is subject to the same conditions as a barrel. Yep, proofed at EXTRA cost to boot! You couldn't make it up..................
And - of course you need a variation to buy a silencer, once the silencer (which is now classed as a section 1 fiream) is 'on' your licence, you can do a one-for-one variation and 'swap' it for an L42, or an L96, or whatever.