From: Jonathan Spencer, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>My co-terminous certificates expire in 48 hours time.
Unless you have a firearm certificate in force, or a Section 7 permit to
possess, then your possession would be unlawful. No ifs and buts,
unlawful.
> I made due application
>for renewal in mid August. I have today been visited by a civilian firearms
>officer, who says that all seems in order and that the renewals will be
>expedited, although I know that none of my referees or co-signatories have
>yet been visited,
When I've acted as referee, what I have said has been verified over the
phone. They repeated the questions to me, and I've given them the same
answers as I wrote on the form. I don't see any need for in person
verification.
>When I requested temporary certificates, as an alternative to lodging my guns
>with an RFD before my certs' expiry, I was told that neither alternative was
>necessary for me, as the police would "keep me covered" in the interim, while
>my applications are being dealt with.
What they are saying is this: "trust us, we won't nail you." Do you
trust them? How far away from you are they: could you call in person
for a S7 permit?
>Can any expert confirm if this is indeed the case? My reading of the law is
>that chief officers of police do not have the discretion to make informal
>declarations that one will be "kept covered" in this way.
They don't have any such power.
--Jonathan Spencer, firearms examiner
"Justice is open to everybody in the same way as the Ritz Hotel."
Judge Sturgess, 22 July 1928
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