RDC wrote:The only benefit I can see to the new deac laws is they may stop more perfectly serviceable bolt action rifles being butchered though! You think you have found a reasonable price rifle within reasonable driving distance only to discover it's been bloody deactivated!
In my experience of the trade, very few dealers deactivate note worthy rifles, they are generally unfit for shooting. There are always exceptions of course, all those lovely LB No4's chopped by WWA for one.
A collapse in the deac market could potentially be very bad for us shooters though, fewer people to import ex service rifles for one, the demand for live rifles is tiny compared to the demand for deacs ... Well it was before this! It just won't be worth bothering for some dealers as live sales were only a side line.