Hello Brandon,

I'm sure it would be a job of simplicity for any of us so minded to take it on, but like the engineering firms you have approached already I'm sure I speak for all in that we would need to be reassured that we would not be contributing to or enabling an illegal weapon to be brought to life.

You say you will provide a contact number for the police in London; I imagine just entering that area would be absolutely fraught with complications " I see Sir, how did you get this request and where do you live? " being just the start of it. The SWAT teams would be upon you in a crack.

So, a bit more work on your part please to increase the transparency is needed I think before you are likely to get a volunteer.

Kind regards

Brian

It is a sad reflection on our society when we automatically assume that someone seeking help with a gun part is making an illegal gun. All we have to do is have sight of his firearms or shotgun certificate (whichever is appropriate) to see the gun listed and be assured that it is legally held. However, I do recommend Brandon to go to a registered firearms dealer, if only to be assured that the pin will be properly hardened and tempered.

Brandon has assured us that it would be legal to make the part in the UK, and as he has made it clear he can put the person making it in touch with the firearms team at the Met. I would suggest that anyone considering assisting takes up that offer.

Nonetheless, I think the advice to contact a gunsmith is probably the best route for Brandon to take.

Neil

Perhaps just to explain my reasons a little further from earlier on in this thread. I would think it appropriate for Brandon to make the running with the London firearms people since he is the certificate holder rather than whichever of us is prepared to help him out and then stumble through the inevitable questions that are sure to arise.

I agree with Mike that this is a sad reflection on the times we live in now when a man's word is under examination in a sensitive area like this.

The very last thing I would want is a visit to my workshop to see what I am doing there and then find I have to register my activity because I've made a gun part. I agree with the others, rather reluctantly, that he would be better off altogether in going to a registered professional for the work. Technically it is a doddle, politically for the novice a minefield

Regards

Brian

Brian with respect and atthe risk of grinding on he ddoesn’t need to contct anyone. He just needs a part making. It isn’t anything untoward or unusual and as a matter of fact I made two of these yesterday. If everyone had to call the firearms and explosives department every time we needed to make anything we would get nothing done. And tgd people theee would probably start questioning our competence if we didn’t know what we were doing. He has already said he has the firearm certificate and that is quite good enough.

Hi Brandon,

I think you may have realised your mistake in mentioning the word "firearm", just take that word out of the conversation and you should have no problem getting it made.

Tony

Glad you still have a sense of humour sir.

You have to understand the worries ( groundless or otherwise)..

Just some comments from a man who has done a little bit of machining, you do not need a lathe that can go to 4000 rpm to make this part, you do not need a CNC lathe to make it and you do not need to send the whole rifle to any one just to make the pin.

You just need a decent engineer who can turn to fairly tight limits and I would imagine the pin would need heat treating?

Tony

Hi Brandon. If its any help I would gladly make it for you if my lather would spin that fast – but it wont! I make fireworks also known as explosives, but that doesnt make me a bad person! Besides, if you were a terrorist you would have a near endless supply of firearms available to you……

And for all you folk who think "Gunsmithing" is a mysterious art or something requiring forbidden knowledge. This was the job today:

Remove two forestock screws that some Neanderthal had forced in. The person concerned had managed to get two 5mm button heads quite a ways down 3/16 UNF holes before rounding out the hex so they were impossible to remove. WHY? Not just the one, when it bound up he started in on the second? Amazingly e hadn't put a scratch on the stock. When I did get them out the decision then was – Tap it 5mm or helicoil?

Lot of this sort of stuff. People using spray cooking oil on a Beretta Walnut Stock? I think I do it because I never cease to be amazed at people's creativity when they have decided to be really, really stupid. Or some of the advice they take. A friend of a client had taken a french polishing course at the college and decided to try his skills on a £6k piece "as a favour"!

The all time classic piece of work I ever saw though was someone take a blowtorchh to a stock to give it a "camouflage look". French Burl Walnut Stock, I could have cried. If it had been mine I would have.

Home Blueing jobs are another favourite. Always a disaster. (For the record my friend is one of the best Gun Blue people in the country, highly thought of. I am not nearly half as good. Everything goes to him to be Blued after dismantling. Though I am very good a Jewelling, plenty of practice).

graham.

Edited By Oompa Lumpa on 04/04/2014 20:53:34

I'm a bit far away, but the last firing pin I made for a .22 rifle, was a new one for my Stevens Favorite(they are beggars for breaking firing pins), I used my Super Adept lathe, as I had no other at the time, it would be lucky to exceed 400rpm. Ian S C