From: nick royall, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
The new laws requiring club membership may not have benn in force in 1987
but "good reason" and a place to shoot were. Depending on the outcome, the
issuing of a FAC with such speed and without many checks can be read as
either sloppy work or as an unburdening of unneccessary paperwork etc. If it
had been almost anyone else we would be praising the police for their
kindheartedness and understanding. On that occasion they got it badly wrong
but the consequences were borne by everyone else. Dont forget, the pen
pushers have had their agenda set since 1972 and we will be damned lucky to
have any firearms at all by 2016. We dont even have the freedom not to have
a bank account (ignoring the fact there are 30% less branches than 10 years
ago), something that was dropped by the communist states when they realised
that controlling the economy was beyond them.
Nick
Why me?
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It wasn't a case of issuing an FAC, he already had one, he applied
for a variation to it. I can't see anything technically illegal
about issuing the authority, although it does contravene HO
Guidance (although I'm not sure what the guidance was in 1987,
and it was pretty ropey back then).
In any event, if it had been turned down he still had other guns,
so the impact would have been marginal as he killed most of
his victims with the Beretta. At best it is circumstantial
evidence that TVP failed to follow HO Guidance, which is not
illegal anyway.
I personally think that going on about Hungerford is totally
fruitless because without a public inquiry we will never know
what actually happened in enough detail, and even then it's
pretty iffy.
Steve.
Cybershooters website: http://www.cybershooters.org
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