Very interesting image Dianne, lovely light, focus and colour, You would not be allowed to display let alone purchase a working gun in the UK you risk prison, as a farmer you still need to have them under lock and key with the appropriate certificate,
To buy a shotgun in Britain you need to hold a Shotgun Certificate, and to buy a rifle you need to hold a Fire Arm Certificate. A shotgun is described as a smooth-bore gun (not being an air-weapon) which has a barrel not less than 24 inches with a bore diameter not exceeding 2 inches. A firearm usually describes a cartridge-loading, rifled-barrel longarm (rifle) with a barrel not shorter than 300mm. Overall length of the firearm must not be less than 600mm unless it is a muzzle loader. Firearms include: muzzle-loading rifles or pistols; shotguns with a magazine capacity greater than three; airguns with power ratings exceeding 12 ft/lbs for rifles and 6ft/lbs for pistols,historic pistols kept at home as part of a collection or kept at a designated historic site and used for non-competitive target practice.
@pcoulson yes, NZ is strict with locked guns and ammo too. You need to be a licence holder, and also to have completed a firearms safety course. I am picking that these muskets on display are replicas.
@dide thanks for the info Dianne they do look very realistic would love one myself, As a boy on my fathers farm I got an old Holland & Holland 410 single shot gun for my 10th birthday and progressed to Webley & Scott double barrel 12 bore at about 15 years old, I did also compete in clays in my youth, its the same over here you have to go through lots of tests and paper filling to get a licence:)
To buy a shotgun in Britain you need to hold a Shotgun Certificate, and to buy a rifle you need to hold a Fire Arm Certificate. A shotgun is described as a smooth-bore gun (not being an air-weapon) which has a barrel not less than 24 inches with a bore diameter not exceeding 2 inches. A firearm usually describes a cartridge-loading, rifled-barrel longarm (rifle) with a barrel not shorter than 300mm. Overall length of the firearm must not be less than 600mm unless it is a muzzle loader. Firearms include: muzzle-loading rifles or pistols; shotguns with a magazine capacity greater than three; airguns with power ratings exceeding 12 ft/lbs for rifles and 6ft/lbs for pistols,historic pistols kept at home as part of a collection or kept at a designated historic site and used for non-competitive target practice.