{"id":102467,"date":"2026-09-19T02:00:37","date_gmt":"2026-09-19T06:00:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=102467"},"modified":"2026-05-12T21:42:48","modified_gmt":"2026-05-13T01:42:48","slug":"how-britains-oldest-proof-house-still-tests-modern-military-weapons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/how-britains-oldest-proof-house-still-tests-modern-military-weapons\/","title":{"rendered":"How Britain&#8217;s oldest Proof House still tests modern military weapons"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"center\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"854\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/N1fEuo4g1V0?si=noua_B6eX7xixAkf\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>BFBS Forces News<\/strong><br \/>\nPublished 12 May 2026<\/p>\n<p>For nearly 400 years a succession of Proof Masters have been making sure firearms in the UK are safe, stopping dangerous guns from being used.<\/p>\n<p>Every firearm, whether it&#8217;s for military use or not, has to go through something called a proofing process.<\/p>\n<p>This is a series of tests to make sure the weapon is not only made properly, but it can withstand the pressure generated by modern-day ammunition.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BFBS Forces News Published 12 May 2026 For nearly 400 years a succession of Proof Masters have been making sure firearms in the UK are safe, stopping dangerous guns from being used. Every firearm, whether it&#8217;s for military use or not, has to go through something called a proofing process. This is a series of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[4,7,5,663],"tags":[49,350],"class_list":["post-102467","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-britain","category-history","category-military","category-weapons","tag-guns","tag-london"],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-qEH","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102467","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=102467"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102467\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":102468,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102467\/revisions\/102468"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=102467"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=102467"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=102467"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}