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.
>In these circumstances, where a renewal
>application was made in good time, the Chief Constable is not
>about to try the patience of the local judiciary by sending a
>report to the Procurator Fiscal alleging unlawful possession of
>firearms and ammunition.
No, I don't imagine they would, for it would only backfire anyway. My
point is simply this, that unless the certificate is renewed in time the
possession - on the letter of the law - becomes unlawful. Hence, if
there was a need to produce a certificate to a constable and one
couldn't then one faces arrest.
>The more confrontational approach suggested
>by Jonathan and others may be appropriate in England and in other
>Scottish police areas.
I didn't mean to sound confrontational, more a warning to err on the
side of caution having been once bitten myself ...
--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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