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ovenpaa wrote: How many people bag everything up the night before and leave it on the bedroom floor ready for a very early start?

Or more to the point how many people are prepared to admit doing this?

:-P NEVER!

Well, para 1.1 of the Firearms Security Handbook 2005 states;

"firearms and shotguns to which the certificate relates must be stored securely at all times (except in certain circumstances) so as to prevent, so far as is reasonably practicable, access to the guns by unauthorised persons."

So, on the bedroom floor, at the bottom of the bed where you are sleeping, in a locked house, how is the above not satisfied?

SimG, I do like your interpretation

Positive approach, lovely.

"(except in certain circumstances)"

Get out clause???

Can you imagine what the re-write of the Firearms Acts and rules and guidance notes and case law and....will look like???

:roll: :evil:

Sim G wrote:Well, para 1.1 of the Firearms Security Handbook 2005 states;

"firearms and shotguns to which the certificate relates must be stored securely at all times (except in certain circumstances) so as to prevent, so far as is reasonably practicable, access to the guns by unauthorised persons."

So, on the bedroom floor, at the bottom of the bed where you are sleeping, in a locked house, how is the above not satisfied?

Loaded and sitting next to me. Definitely preventing unauthorized access!

Porcupine wrote:
Loaded and sitting next to me. Definitely preventing unauthorized access!

Without doubt!

All seperate except my "rats tail" on my l1a1

My bolt is stored in a seperate safe.

ovenpaa wrote:

dirtydawk wrote:I always take mine out and store them in the lockable ammo safe on my cabinet. Having seen oodles of people turn up to range days minus bolts I always fit mine back into my rifles the night before I go shooting!

How many people bag everything up the night before and leave it on the bedroom floor ready for a very early start?

Or more to the point how many people are prepared to admit doing this?

That's exactly what I do! Coupled with the fact that my cabinets and kit are all in the loft if I was up early doors and banging about in the loft then the wife would keel haul me!

A typical start for us is out of the house around 06:00 so we get ready the night before. Rifles are bagged and ready to go along with the range bags holding ammunition on the bedroom floor, soft gear is piled up by the front door ready for the off.