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one of my relatives has had to moved into a care home after a stroke, he always had a boyish streak in him even as he got older and we were going through his very large shed and found loads of stuff in there.

we found a genuine dasy products Red Ryder BB gun in an ancient looking box.

its a metal BB fiirng gun , lever cocked. Now I am guessing he has had this a good few years and now its probably not legal. I know he wont have done anything about it as the box looks ancient and has probably just sat there for many years (though the gun was oiled and in good working condition) I guess he used it for ratting as his huge garden adjoins a stream and a tidal part of the esk. I was suprised by its power as it punched a hole in a large plastic plantpot from 30ft or so

so leave it in the shed or hand it in to the police?

we also found a .177 gas operated rifle (looks like a large pistol actually with a stock, gas cartridge goes into the pistol grip and it is loded one pellet a time by a tiny little breech and bolt assembly.)
 
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box says 350 feet per second

and I just looked at some images of the crossman ratcatcher..and thats what it is..has a scope and for some reason a suppressor?

also illegal these days?

I suppose I want to know..can I keep them without having to declare them or will I not be allowed them and have to hand them in
 
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looks like the webley crosman is not legal as it uses a gas cartridge. I dont think he had a firearms certificate. (unless I have misread the rules...they may call it a rifle as it has a stock as some way to get round the pistol rules?)

hopefully the red ryder is ok as its lovely little thing..looks like a mini winchester with wooden stock and foregrip
 
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thanks for the advice

he was a bit of a hoarder..he likes fishing as well...found a half dozen split cane roads in the garage amongst numerous other coarse fishing gear, match rods, boxes of reels, a couple of old centre pins. He also seemed to colelct walking sticks and knives/ceremonial weapons. A couple of the canes have swords in them! (these are probably illegal as well now!!)
 
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