From: Rusty�Bullethole, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>What is the status of primed cases, no powder ?
>Also loose bullets?
>Family member had a visit and was coerced into handing over primed cases
and
>loose bullets, powder however not touched. Family member does not have any
>cert. but the stuff is my fathers as its in his home and he WAS a cert.
>holder. Even funny about SPENT shotgun cases!
>TIA. Niel.
>--
>Well, if it can't expel a projectile it's not ammunition, blanks
>have a case, primer and powder and they're not licensed.
>Steve.
According to the following case which, if I remember rightly, involved a man
being stopped in the street (he was a cert holder) and being to be in
possession of a pistol (on cert) and some primed cartridge cases for it. As
he was not heading for a range or gun dealers he was charged with being in
possession of a firearm and "ammunition" in a public place.
It was successfully argued that in terms of the "public place" charge and
the purposes of the act, the primed cases were ammunition.
FIREARMS (GENERAL). R v Stubbings. On what constitutes ammunition (primer
cartridge was ammunition). CA . [1990] Crim LR 811; [1990] TLR 251
As your fathers house is not a public place then the police would have to
look to other parts of the act, in which case he has cleary not transgressed
any "safe keeping" requirements or been in possession of anything
"prohibited".
Demand that they return them forthwith.
Rusty
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