Firearms regulations 2019

[Dark Skies]

What is the point of recording the batch number of ammunition?
Many of the boxes I've bought in the past doesn't have any.
Much of the Milsurp I buy for my Mossies and Saiga comes in quaint bundles tied with string or in job lot bags.
Zero info beyond that on the case stamp.

And given the amount of reloading that goes on ... REALLY! What IS the point?

[Laurie]

As is often the case, it looks like these EU regs were written by people who know part of the subject, but by no means all of it throwing up both grey areas and out & out anomalies left, right and centre. This all ties in with a world where a 'gun' is seen to be made by a registered manufacturer and is eventually retired / scrapped / whatever exactly as it was turned out of the factory.

It's taken a good while to get FLOs/FEOs to understand that what was a 308 say yesterday might be a 6BR, 6.5 Creedmoor / whatever tomorrow. Likewise, ammunition is neither all made in factories nor does it all arrive in neat new shiny 20 or 50-round boxes that can be stamped up (at no inconsiderable cost and trouble) with discrete batch numbers or other identifiers. Ignoring the overall, wider issue of this being yet another example of the EU being a huge over-powerful bureaucracy producing stifling cost inflating, unneeded and unwanted regulations wherever it sticks its fingers in (and usually as here to no discernible gain for the citizenry), it`yet again ends up assuming all holes are round and that all pegs are likewise and of the same diameters.

So, we end with square pegs being (yet again) hammered into round holes to meet badly thought through and drafted regulations that (until we're 'out') promptly acquire the title of domestic legislation with serious criminal law sanctions. Stage 2 for those unwilling / unable to escape the EU will be for the regulators to recognise there are square objects and round orifices and deem that the former must be converted to the latter - ie banned because they don't suit the regulators.

Comforting as Ovenpaa's assumed definitions of components are, what is to stop whichever bit of the Brussels machine which drew up this nonsense announcing that no, it's much more than just pressure bearing items, it's trigger assemblies, stocks and more and that member states have to make that clear to RFDs and firearm owners. I've already seen an FEO (ex military, but relatively inexperienced in this role), completely thrown by being presented with a barreled action and told that that is the 'firearm' in question. He had great trouble getting his head around the idea that sans stock, sights and fittings it was a legitimate firearm at all and probably equated it to a sawn-off shotgun or similar. The idea that people actually swap stocks these days for different shooting purposes. or that a single stock might be mated with more than a single barreled action, really surprised him. I didn't dare mention that people swap barrels routinely too between different calibres depending on what the rifle is being taken out for next. (I can still remember the confusion QD swap-barrel Blasers with no s/n on receivers and only barrels marked up caused initially with FLOs and their teams!)