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• What types of payment do you accept?

  Created: Saturday, 23 January 2010 20:17 Author: admin site

  Customers can pay by cash, cheque, Bankers draught, or directly into business account. For more information please call 02392 812939 or email portsmouthmilitaria@btconnect.com Cheques should be made out to - Portsmouth Militaria 38 April Square, Land...

• Can these items be shipped abroad ?

  Created: Saturday, 23 January 2010 20:16 Author: admin site

  Yes. These can be sent to most countries world wide, excluding the U.S.A. However, you should check with your countries importation laws before paying as your item could be seized if not correctly cleared to enter....

• Whats the difference between old spec and new spec deactivated guns ?

  Created: Saturday, 23 January 2010 20:15 Author: admin site

  Old specification or pre 95 guns can be stripped, the action cocked and dry fired, and in the case of revolvers, have clear cartridge chambers. New specification deactivated guns cannot be cocked or dry fired, and usually, not stripped. Bolt action rifles...

• Do deactivated guns fire anything ?

  Created: Saturday, 23 January 2010 20:12 Author: admin site

  No. Deactivated weapons, as their name suggests, have been rendered inoperable. They can never fire ammunition of any kind. Reactivating a deactivated gun is not only extremely dangerous, but completely illegal, and carries a long prison sentence....

• Is it legal to own a deactivated gun without a firearm certificate ?

  Created: Saturday, 23 January 2010 20:03 Author: admin site

  Yes it is 100% legal. The only requirement is that you must be over 18. However, if you brandish it in public, or use it in a threatening manner, then the laws are the same as if you use a live firearm. You must exorcise responsible ownership....

• Whats a 'Deactivated Gun'?

  Created: Saturday, 16 January 2010 23:15 Author: admin site

  A deactivated weapon is any firearm that has been converted so that it can no longer discharge any shot, bullet or any other missile. Deactivation is intended to be permanent and cannot be reactivated without specialist tools or skills. Deactivation work...

• Now Open!

  Created: Sunday, 10 August 2008 06:30 Author: admin site

  NOW OPEN! Portsmouth Militaria is a UK based suppiler of Deactivated Guns and Militaria.   Here at Portsmouth Militaria we sell and buy deactivated guns from all historical periods. We specialise in World War 1 and World War 2 pieces and pride ourse...