Texas Star
US Veteran
They call those flick knives and they're illegal, too.
I know a British professor who is of the gentry and who is in fact spending today and tomorrow with a famous countess whose title LVSteve and some others here would know. She is also friends with a descendant of Churchill. Is well enough off that her dad left her a pair of Purdey shotguns, which Americans can surely import, so there must be ways.
But even with her rarefied origins and friends in the nobility, she is reluctant to carry her Swiss Army knife or any "bladed weapon" in public unless actually out hunting or walking the moors. BTW, she does most of her hunting (mainly for pheasant and woodcock) with a Beretta shotgun. Even shotguns have to be licensed, although it's easier than with rifles. Handguns are virtually banned, all but entirely, since 1997.
She does know that woman who is descended from Churchill whose dad is a famous Conservative MP, so I've just asked her if she can get her friend to determine what became of Sir Winston's pistols after the dreadful 1997 gun law.
I am proud of my British ancestry in many ways, but the UK is a prime example of how NOT to pass gun laws. I'm ashamed that the British and other Commonwealth countries can't even use deadly force to defend themselves from violent criminal assaults in their own homes! It's disgusting.
Good luck on bringing the guns here, but unless they're high grade Webleys or fine rifles or shotguns or at least BSA-made rifles, probably not worth the trouble. (Webley made much finer-finished guns than their common service models. They also made good shotguns, if not in a class with those by Purdey, Boss, H&H, etc.))
I had a BSA Monarch .30-06 some years ago and it was a better rifle than Remington, for sure. I'd put it pretty much on par with push-feed Winchester M-70's, except that I prefer even that M-70's extractor to the BSA's. If these include GOOD Lee-Enfield sporters by BSA or a famous maker, like Holland & Holland, etc., I'd DEFINITELY try to bring them here! But you need to learn the condition. They may well have been neglected.
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