The UK's Finest Independent Forum for Shooters and Gun Owners. Est 2010.

Well its now past the 20 working days the Home Office is supposed to respond to queries (I wrote an email to them highlighting the above) and still no response, which could potentially be a good thing. Noodling through the document I did come across the section below which is the part specific to expanding ammo in the Section 5 prohibitions and it does make it seem like the later passages quoted above have simply been copied across/missed in the rewrite;

xvii) any ammunition which is designed to be used with a pistol and incorporates a
missile designed or adapted to expand on impact (section 5(1A)(f));
o Section 5(1A)(f) refers to ammunition incorporating a projectile that is
designed or adapted to expand in a controlled manner. Semi-jacketed soft
point and hollow point are typical forms of expanding ammunition, but care
must be taken to distinguish between expanding ammunition which is solely
designed for use in pistols and expanding ammunition for use in rifles - only
expanding ammunition for pistols is prohibited, whereas expanding
ammunition for rifles is subject to section 1 controls and may be held on a
firearms certificate. All bullets will distort on impact, but only those which
were designed or adapted to do so in a predictable manner fit this category.

Still no response to my personal enquiry, has anyone else had anything back about this or has it just been either forgotten about or quietly swept under the carpet until a correctly revised version is out?

Well I finally got a response back from a second request. It seems like they did in fact listen to us and in pretty short time. The Guide was amended and republished in December 2021 and now has all of the offending references to expanding rifle ammo corrected;

https://assets.publishing.service.gov.u ... 122021.pdf

Still might have been nice to tell us though

Thank you, Blackstuff!

It's good to know that we are being listened to, and that appropriate action has been taken. It's time to fire up the printer, I think.