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Does anyone know if all all Webley Mark 1 revolvers are legal antiques? On line, I see that the Mark 1 stared in the early 1890s, and the Mark 2 started in 1897. But that does not mean that production of Mark 1 ended in the antique area. Can you help? Thank you.

This seems like a simple question, but I am guessing that the correct answer varies from place to place, and maybe even from courtroom to courtroom. If I leave a gun out of sight in my locked car, and someone breaks in to the car and steals the gun, could I be in trouble for not having the gun...

I know that black powder is less stable than smokeless powder, but can black powder withstand sharp shocks without igniting? Here is where this question comes from: I have acquired some recently made ammo loaded with black powder. (It is revolver cowboy ammo.) I don’t want to shoot it because...

Under the sticky Common and Important Legal Issues, there is a subthread about shipping, but that is closed, so I cannot add anything to that discussion. Anyway, on another forum, I have seen recent discussion about UPS changing their shipping rules to exclude any nonlicensed person who wants to...

I am asking about a straight-forward shipment to my home, without going through a bunch of legal requirements and paying extra fees. I suspect the answer is no, but I want to be sure. Thanks.

I have used Unique for most of my handgun reloading in several calibers for many years. I don’t reload a whole lot, so one canister of Unique lasts me several years. A few months ago, I finished an old canister, and shot up the reloads from that. Recently I loaded some .357 cartridges using a...

Is there real-world evidence (not from the movies or TV) as to how a potentially violent assailant or a residential burglar is likely to react when confronted by a laser gunsight that is clearly aimed at or very near them? Are they likely to surrender? Try to escape? Or maybe fight back?

Several times in recent years, in this and other forums, I have seen discussions about firing warning shots if you catch a burglar in your house, are confronted by a violent assailant, etc. I will not go into the details now, but generally, the advice has been that warning shots are a bad idea...

Many .455 Webleys in the US had the cylinders shaved to take .45 ACP ammo. The guns with shaved cylinders tend to cost a lot less than the unmodified guns. I understand that they should not be fired with full strength .45 ACP ammo. If I got a shaved Webley, I would use handloaded ammo with very...

Looking at maps of covid 19 hospitalization and death, it is clear that republican states are most affected in recent weeks. That means states with a high percentage pro-gun voters are most affected. Here is a radical proposal: If you want to survive to vote for gun rights in the future, you...

Interesting article from Reuters, discussing cases where police shot people who legally held a gun. Qualified immunity usually leads to the conclusion that the police were not liable. My thought is that if I respond to noise in my house or yard or to a loud knock on the door, I need to think...

Lately, I am struggling with an urge to buy a Webley 455 revolver, even though I have never fired one. I got to touch one about 30 years ago. For those of you who have fired one, what can you tell me about the joy of shooting one? Can you compare the action, trigger pull, accuracy, etc to say a...

I tried the question below on another forum and got only one response after more than 100 views. Maybe this forum will get additional responses. Various internet sources, such as Wikipedia, list approximate production years for the Webley Mark I through Mark VI, and some other models. In...

According to the attached link, this situation is about a 91 year old man who owned a few very normal guns in Washington State (Side note, those of us who live in Washington State sometimes include the word State to distinguish ourselves from the other Washington.) If the legal situation in this...

I have had guns stolen in home burglaries on two occasions many years apart in two states. Both times, the guns were locked up in small safes that thieves were able to remove from my house. (But this post is not about safes.) Both crimes were investigated by local police. The first theft...

The July American Rifleman has an article about the Johnson semi-auto rifle, which saw limited use during WW2. In comparing combat firearms, reliability in adverse conditions is a critical consideration. Is there any info on how the Johnson compared to the M1 Garand in that regard? My dad, who...

For as long as I can remember (going back about 6 decades) one of the justifications for private gun ownership has been the concept that law enforcement is not legally required to come to your defense. Now a former sheriff's deputy in Florida has been charged with 11 crimes for not taking direct...

Do shareholder groups aligned with nuns now dictate policy at S&W and Ruger? https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/companies/smith-and-wesson-loses-fight-with-nuns-and-other-shareholders-on-gun-safety-proposal/ar-AAADrRQ?li=BBnb4R7

This is hypothetical, but I would like to have a good answer in case the real event occurs. Some time ago, several guns were stolen from me in a home burglary. I have a copy of the police report listing the stolen guns by make, model, caliber, and serial number, with photos. All of the stolen...

My understanding is that a supersonic bullet makes its own sonic boom, so no matter what you do to the gun, you will hear a loud noise. Am I correct, or can a gun with supersonic bullets be silenced to a significant degree? Just today, I saw a news article about poachers in Africa using...