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hi buying a gun if not a resident is no problem at all, just take your permit de chasse and you can buy as many guns as you like and what ever size you like. however there are certain differences to England. Here you need to take a test, unlike in England. Also a .22 rifel can be bought here but is not permitted on the chasse as it is deemed unsporting as the gun is very quite and gives the game less of a chance. also do not buy your .22 in England or beware because as in England or France you can buy semi-auto .22  but in France you are limited to 3 shots before reloading, in England you can have a .22 which takes 10 or more.

good luck with the test and happy hunting               

                                                                                                     

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hi buying a gun if not a resident is no problem at all, just take your permit de chasse and you can buy as many guns as you like and what ever size you like. however there are certain differences to England. Here you need to take a test, unlike in England. Also a .22 rifel can be bought here but is not permitted on the chasse as it is deemed unsporting as the gun is very quite and gives the game less of a chance. also do not buy your .22 in England or beware because as in England or France you can buy semi-auto .22  but in France you are limited to 3 shots before reloading, in England you can have a .22 which takes 10 or more.

good luck with the test and happy hunting

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Hi, what difference does the noise make ? surely after the bang the bullet travels so fast that the intended target doesn't have a clue about any bang, the other animals would hear it and run off, is this what you meant? hugh.

                                                                                              

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hi hugh a .22 rifle can fire a subsonic round so if the gun is silenced it will make no noise at all hence as you rightly pointed out it will give no prior wanning to any other wild life in the area. All other rifles are not sub sonic and it is the bullet traverling through the air that makes the most noise not the firing of the gun.

max

cheers ma

 

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Hi

It is ok to have a sound moderator for a handgun there is nothing in current legislation prohibiting them. I have to say that I really don't know where all this information is coming from it sounds rather like it maybe old Pierre the pillar of the shooting club has given his interpretation of the law.

Yorky

 

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