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I'm guessing that's the Sunderland one then. We may have met. It's unlikely thay your FAC would be refused then as all clubs must notify the cops of everyone who applies for membership and if they thought you weren't suitable they would have objected to your membership. J.
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Pretty much as others have said. I don't know how your cautions will affect things but it depends on what they were for. I forget if the Act considers them as convictions, if not then you don't have to declare them. Best idea is to ring headquarters and ask. Then again, they'll know about them all anyway. Bottom line is your character and fitness to possess firearms as it stands at the present moment not what you did 10 years ago. The only exception to that would be if you were a person who was prohibited from possessing firearms under Sec.21 which means they police couldn't issue you a ce
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Thee land is cleared for centerfire, I know that for a fact. Is it ok if I just give the adress of the land or DO I need a letter. Strictly speaking, you don't need a letter or permission or anything. You have to show "good reason" for acquiring the firearm you are applying for. If you can show that good reason then they must grant the cert. In practice it's much easier to demonstrate your good reason by producing a permission letter from the land owner but there isn't really any reason why the cops can't take a verbal permission from the landowner. J.
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Could be a nice gun; good maker and sounds like Damascus barrels. Might pay you to do nothing at all with it until you've positvely identified what it is specifically - you don't want to be running the risk of ruining valuable historic features for no reason. Can you post some pics? J.
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Got no pics but I use a Corbin Series II swaging/reloading press, mostly RCBS dies, RCBS uniflow powder measure & 505 scale and a Lyman case cleaner. Might invest in a Dillon progressive press in the near future. J.
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If you have permision to use your rifle on a pice of land then that is sufficient. There isn't any system for registering specific guns to specific pieces of land - permission to shoot there is all you need. Best advice is to join a Home Office approved target shooting club as that will be sufficient good reason to keep your rifles if you lose your land. J. JonathanL So i can probably keep my rifle after all with my current verbal permission As for the shooting club , i was actually thinking along the same lines , and joining one , Thanks for the advice ,
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If you have permision to use your rifle on a pice of land then that is sufficient. There isn't any system for registering specific guns to specific pieces of land - permission to shoot there is all you need. As another poster has said, if you lose the land to shoot over then your good reason for possessing the rifle disappears. In this sutuation the police are perfectly entitled (and in fact should) revoke your cert, or at least the authority to posseess the particular gun. Best advice is to join a Home Office approved target shooting club as that will be sufficient good reason to keep
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This is one of the reasons I keep the bolts in the rifles. Other is that you can de-cock them which you can't (mostly) otherwise. If I were travelling a long way andf knew that I'd probably need to leave the vehicle I'd take them out. J. Aye Jonathan I could see the foxes rolling about on their backs holding their ribs laughing . The bolt will now stay in the rifle Back in the days that we were trusted to shoot pistols in this country a chap I knew turned up at the range having simply strapped a holstered revolver to his belt directly from the gun cabinet. Chap gets to the rang
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This is one of the reasons I keep the bolts in the rifles. Other is that you can de-cock them which you can't (mostly) otherwise. If I were travelling a long way andf knew that I'd probably need to leave the vehicle I'd take them out. J.
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If you are involved it's a good idea to tell officers that you have guns in the car because if you are leaving the vehicle then your guns will be unattended which may leave you in breach if the security condition on your cert. If you aren't concious though you can't. There is no requirement which says you have to inform the cops of the fact that you have firearms with you if you are a witness or passer-by. You have to produce your cert to them if they ask for it but there's nothing which says you have to tell them without them asking - unless it's relevant in some way. J.
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Good point. Ammo in the gun, or in a magazine or loading device, will probably leave you open to a charge of having a loaded firearm in a public place without reasonable excuse or lawful authority which is a pretty serious offence. J.
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The legal requirementS are contained in the conditions on your FAC. Basically, "reasonable" security precautions must be taken. If the gun and ammo are out of sight and not left for an unreasonably long period in an unattended vehicle then I doubt you will have too many problems. The bottom line is that you should ask your self "if my gun gets piched can I show that the way I stored it was reasonable?". Or; "Is there anything else I can reasonably do to make the gun less nickable?" The word reasonable is the key point here. You only need to do what is reasonable in the circumstance
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No. The burdon of proof lies with the person seeking to use the defence. He doesn't have to show that the landowner would have let him do it, he has to prove that he was of the belief that the landowner would have let him do it. He has to prove what his mind-set was at the time, not what the landowners was. J.
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The theft will come from the fact that he took it from the public road - not because it jumped from the keepers property. It may have been farmed deer though which would change things.
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Do they though? Do you know which particular piece of law says this? It may say it in relation to deer lawfully shot on land over which you have permission to shoot but if it dies on someone elses land then it's theirs as far as I can see. You'd have no claim on it as it wasn't anyones property at the time you shot it. J.
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This definitely isn't correct. There is no "property" in a legal sense in wild growth - which includes animals. A landowner does not "own" wild things on his land but has a right to "take" them under certain circumstances. This is why you can't be convicted of theft if you steal a living animal from someones land. The offence of theft is dishonestly appropriating "property belonging to another" and wild animals are not property of anyone untuil they are dead - hence, no theft occurs. If they were then we wouldn't have need for poaching laws as taking animals would simply be charged as theft.
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That's not true and bullets aren't firearms. J.
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I presume that you are asking where you would stand legally if you shot a deer which ran and died on to an adjacent farm where you had no permission to be or shoot on. As long as you shot the deer on land where you did have permission then as long as you didn't take your rifle with you the only crime you would commit would be trespass which is a civil offence, you would have reduced the deer to 'possession' and the deer would belong to you. If the land owner would not give you the deer back, then the land owner would be guilty of theft. John Don't agree on the last part. It's in
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I'd imagine that if it died on the other property then you would probably be guilty of theft if you went and retrieved it. Also, trespass with a firearm. J.
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As mentioned, the PRVI .308 stuff is about £60/100, I think. It's quite good stuff actually. Other brands can be much more. Whatever way you look at it, it's probably worth just buying it whatever type you use because it certainly isn't going to come down in price any time soon and has been rising pretty much relentlesly for months. Either that or reload. J.
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As far as referees go - if you join a Home Office approved club then the cops will want to see a club official as one of them so that gets at least one dealt with. J.
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Well, I'd have been waiting a long time with an invalid certificate, they have never inspected my cabinet since I moved, or through several variations and renewals!! they have not re inspected your cabinet after a move?? he came to my new house checkedthe cabinet was fixed,checked the contents was on my cert,had a coffee and a chat and that was that. i was under the impression that they need to check that the cabinet is fixed as a minimum(allthough weapon security is your thing and not his really). to the original poster:if in doubt call the feo(thats what i did before moving
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Well, I'd have been waiting a long time with an invalid certificate, they have never inspected my cabinet since I moved, or through several variations and renewals!! You wouldn't have an invalid certificate though. The fact that you have changed your address does not invalidate it. J.
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You must inform the cops of your change of address. I think you only have to inform the issuing force, not the one you are moving to if it's a different one. There is no requirement to send in your cert I don't think.
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I've done that with 75grn bullets from a .257 Weatherby. Think I got 1 or 2 bullets to the target out of 25. The rest disappeared in a little puff og grey coloured mist. J.