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Muzzleloading caplock rifles are non-restricted firearms and need a PAL. ML longarms with a touch hole - flint, match, wheel - are deemed antique.
 
It is only flintlock long guns that are considered antique. Percussion long guns are modern in a legal sense (unless made before 1898)

Check the muzzle on your gun; the ones that I sold had a screw sticking into the rifling. It could not be loaded in that fashion. The screw only projected in a small amount and I was able to file the projection off with a needle file without damaging the bore. If my memory is correct neither gun had been shot before and both had the same problem. The front sight was held on with 2 screws and one of them was projecting into the bore

cheers mooncoon
 
tiriaq said:
Muzzleloading caplock rifles are non-restricted firearms and need a PAL. ML longarms with a touch hole - flint, match, wheel - are deemed antique.
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mooncoon said:
It is only flintlock long guns that are considered antique. Percussion long guns are modern in a legal sense (unless made before 1898)

Check the muzzle on your gun; the ones that I sold had a screw sticking into the rifling. It could not be loaded in that fashion. The screw only projected in a small amount and I was able to file the projection off with a needle file without damaging the bore. If my memory is correct neither gun had been shot before and both had the same problem. The front sight was held on with 2 screws and one of them was projecting into the bore

cheers mooncoon
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Thanks for the clarification. So it is the muzzleloading flintlock / touch hole rifles that are considered antique no matter when they were made.

Muzzleloading flintlock pistols are still restricted then?
 
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