Just got this email from SCI. Thought I would pass it along.

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UPDATE ON TRAVELING WITH YOUR FIREARM



March 5, 2009





Recently, SCI’s London Chapter worked to clarify reports from other hunting publications of changes for hunters travelling through the United Kingdom with their sporting firearms. Below is a statement prepared for SCI by the UK Department of Business Enterprise and Regulatory Reform (BERR), who handles the import and export of firearms in the UK.



Traveling Through the UK to Your Hunting Destination

"There have been reports in the hunting press recently that the UK has banned passengers with sporting firearms flying through the UK to many more destinations, including many in Africa and Central Asia.


Legislation on transshipment is being changed from 6 April 2009. An extra 49 countries are being added to a list of sensitive destinations, which will mean that a license will be required to transit or transship small arms or other "Category B" weapons to those destinations via the UK. However, there has for some time been a special license - the Open General Transshipment License (Sporting Guns) - which allows hunters or others who are passing through the UK accompanying their sporting weapons as personal effects, to do so without applying for a license for the individual trip, provided they meet the terms set out in the body of the license. Those terms state a number of things, but most importantly, that the trip should be no longer than 30 days and the firearms return with the individual; and the license also sets out the types of weapons covered and the destination countries for which it can be used.



The Open General Transshipment License (Sporting Guns) is not affected by the forthcoming changes in legislation. It will remain in force; the list of excluded countries will not be expanded; and as before, it will not be necessary for hunters to register to use it. You will need to look at the actual license (http://www.berr.gov.uk/files/file38952.pdf) for details of all the exclusions, but the prominent hunting countries for which this license cannot be used are Argentina, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Bosnia, Croatia, Ethiopia, Iran, FYR Macedonia, Nepal, China, Serbia, Sudan, Uzbekistan, and Zimbabwe.

Therefore, the message for hunters is clear; in terms of transiting the UK, nothing has changed and there is no reason to alter your plans as a result of what BERR is doing.”

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Croatia

Zimbabwe...? That's cool, I would much rather hunt in Zim again as ever set foot in England. The only good bloody old does is provide fine rifles and Jags.

Rich
Buff Killer

What do you expect from a nation that gave up the one true measurement system in favor of the metric system.

Follow the shoe!

I guess I won't be travelling through merry old England anytime soon on my way to Zim to hunt!

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Originally posted by SG Olds:
What do you expect from a nation that gave up the one true measurement system in favor of the metric system.

My country, [well, what used to be "my" country but now belongs to the criminals and corrupt politicians] changed from Imperial to Metric way back in the 60's. Thank God for that!

In good hunting.

Andrew McLaren

Guys,

Nothing has changed for the average hunter transiting the UK on the way to Africa. BA who was a direct carrier to Ethiopia is out but travel through the UK to Zambia and RSA which is a hub for all of southern Africa is unchanged.

Mark