Thread: How to immobilise old fiream to create safe wall hanging

Originally Posted by longshot

At some stage the deactivation reaches a level of effectiveness that anyone with the ability to un-deactivate it, will also have the ability to manufacture. In which scenario un-deactivation will be a waste of their time in the event that they are seeking to produce a working firearm.

True... Which does raise the question where to replica display-only non functional firearms come into this equation - as someone suggested probably the re-write of the arms act is a good time to sort some of this out.

I suspect some of the thinking on this restriction comes down to the issue of not wanting firearms to be 'visual' anywhere - having a means to render a firearm permanently deactivated for display just doesn't fit into this at all.