toquark
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Usually destroyed I think
Do we need stricter gun laws?
- Thread starter Stuart J
- Start date
it also very easy to setup fake accounts on social media, so if you want to hid from the police/government simply use a fake account
Mr Mackay
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- Location
- HMP Slade , Shropshire
I dont think there is any monies returned after confiscation . I may be wrong , but am reasonably sure they get scrapped under tight supervision !
Quite way someone living in a town needs a shotgun is a mystery.
Anyhoo.........More rules and regs won't do anything though. They never do.
Anyhoo.........More rules and regs won't do anything though. They never do.
- Location
- Dumfries & Galloway
Swarfmonkey
Member
- Location
- Hampshire
Royal Armouries (the old MoD Pattern Room collection) get dibs on any rare stuff, NABIS will get a few, rest destroyed.
- Location
- Dumfries & Galloway
So a keen country sports person shouldn't own a firearms (shotgun or rifle) simply because they live in a built up area?
Correct.
- Location
- Dumfries & Galloway
Explain why
- Location
- Northern Ireland
There's potentially thousands of pounds worth in a gun cabinet. How is it right that that value be destroyed, perhaps as a result of a spurious allegation or marginally relevant incident? Surely it is the sole property of the owner, even if they subsequently lose the approval to hold and use the firearm? Therefore, the guns should at least placed on the market by the police, and the cash value returned to the owner.
Competition rifles and top end shotguns can be 5 figures in value.
Competition rifles and top end shotguns can be 5 figures in value.
- Location
- Dumfries & Galloway
If your car is confiscated by police... it's usually ends up crushed and you get no £££ regardless it's value
If you buy something that was stolen - unknowingly by you - but the police trace it back to you so come for it because it's originally hot... it is confiscated and you do not get your money back.
Why should guns be any different?
At the point of a confiscation the police will hold an item until the incidence is resolved. If it turns out you've done nothing wrong and that's the conclusion the police come to - you get your items back.
If the police decide otherwise, you lose the item(s) and it's your own tough luck.
- Location
- LINCOLNSHIRE/KENYA
My friend who deals in guns has more than one AK i was absolutely amazed that it is legal to own them in the UK.
betweenthelines
Member
- Location
- southwest
No one should own a gun who cannot prove that they NEED to own it-not WANT, NEED.
Tarw Coch
Member
- Location
- Bottom of Wats Dyke
I wonder if all our Olympic competitors live in the countryside or would some not be allowed the opportunity
- Location
- Northern Ireland
Presumably you would then have to be charged with a crime in order for there to be a justification for destroying your gun property?
- Location
- Dumfries & Galloway
That depends very much on the calibre. Not all guns are as they appear.
A real AK-47 is illegal in the UK - no it's, no buts. There is no exception or exemption allowing ownership of such a gun in the UK. (Unless of course it has been deactivated, which means it's no more than an ornament)
We have a firearm officer as a tenant, highest % of guns they deal with is handguns and Air rifles, which neither you need a licence for.
- Location
- LINCOLNSHIRE/KENYA
They were de-activated from automatic.
toquark
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toquark
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That precludes anyone who shoots for sport then. No one needs to shoot a clay pigeon.