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No UK Police Area does own Testing it's Sent to a Commercial Lab - Adivised Costs was well over £500.00 per gun for testing and report

 

Yes Police might Run it through a Chrono with Pellets Found -

But if they Supect it's over they Will get Permission to send it off for Legal testing & Report

 

Yes They do offer many offending owners the Choice of Destruction or a Court Case

Which could result in a Fixed Five Year Jail Term

 

If Police not allowed - Can not see Customs being allowed to Test

 

 

 

BOB/R

 

Hi Bob,

 

Seems we are at odds yet again :oops:

 

My Ultra was tested by a Firearms Officer with a caliberated Chronograph at Queens Gardens Police Station's Range. It was not sent anywhere else.

I had his written Statement read out to me before I was offered the Caution.

Nor did they take any of my own pellets. They used their own selections.

 

Tony

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More like customs have spent the month trying to get it over the limit. I'd be requesting a print out of the test with what pellets. Then asking for an independent test

As far as I am aware, customs and excise can not test the gun's, they have to involve the Police Firearms department who in turn call in the services of the forensic sciences department.   If it's r

Not always ..Have a copy of a test that was done on a PCP the official testing it ,made several adjustments getting it over the limit..Written evidence in the court states the tester saying he would

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