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As an aside, a member here has told a newspaper in India in a rare pro gun piece that the newspaper did, that when he went with his 12 ga SxS shotgun to the Commissioner of Police to get it registered, he was asked if it was a tifle or a revolver. And I'm not making this up - I could find the interview on the newspaper's website if you are interested.

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That would be me. I had taken the rimfire rifle to the cop shop to have it endorsed on the licence and he looks the rifle up and down and then asks me if it is shotgun or a pistol. Keeping a poker face at such times isn't easy but I just about managed it.

A few years later when I had to get the shotgun endorsed, the bloke did not even look at me or the gun. Banged his stamp on the licence, signed and dated it and I was out. Had I known, I would have taken along a full-auto shotgun.