m3vert Posted January 12, 2013 Report Share Posted January 12, 2013 Looks like someone was not keen to hand in their guns back in 1996! Be interesting to see what exactly they found http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-politics-20994897 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
clakk Posted January 12, 2013 Report Share Posted January 12, 2013 understandable just after dunblane all guns and owners were satans children and obviously needed locking up for ever and a day.we had histeria wisteria and listeria ,no informed newspaper articles just hype .i guess he panicked and thought ive paid for these u aint taking em .theres a lot of peeps on here lost their hand guns and some ex army friends gave up slr,s etc due to being villified .he shouldve give his pistols up but human beings idea of whats right n wrong is very different Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kent Posted January 12, 2013 Report Share Posted January 12, 2013 This is bound to happen, those of us that were around post Hungerford learned that one and its why deals were struck on compensation and no-question variations when the so called handgun ban came in. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
al4x Posted January 12, 2013 Report Share Posted January 12, 2013 the interesting thing is in 96 if they were legal they should have been on ticket so my guess would be they were illegally held then otherwise why haven't the police sussed they were missing. The shotguns weren't made illegal anyway so something odd was going on Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MM Posted January 12, 2013 Report Share Posted January 12, 2013 i would be asking who owns them now then? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Asa Bear Posted January 12, 2013 Report Share Posted January 12, 2013 i would be asking who owns them now then? I'd say the flat owner should be entitled to sell the legal guns through an RFD and be able to keep the proceeds. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MM Posted January 12, 2013 Report Share Posted January 12, 2013 i would be asking for a variation Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vince Green Posted January 12, 2013 Report Share Posted January 12, 2013 I'd say the flat owner should be entitled to sell the legal guns through an RFD and be able to keep the proceeds. There is a case to be made for that,I doubt very much that it will happen though. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JONAH898 Posted January 12, 2013 Report Share Posted January 12, 2013 Imagin though if they were sum very old purdy's etc some old timer had hid away they could be worth a fortune, if was me I'd defiantly be asking to sell them of if he had a sgc to keep them Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
njc110381 Posted January 12, 2013 Report Share Posted January 12, 2013 I was under the impression that firearms found that are not on ticket, as long as it can be proven that they have not been used for criminal activities, can be registered and used/sold? The bit I didn't get was this... "Martin Bale, a registered firearms dealer in Cardiff, said some gun owners did not register their weapons following the introduction of tighter legislation in the 1990s." - I'd have thought the handguns would have been section 1 and the shotguns either section 1 or 2 depending on spec? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kent Posted January 12, 2013 Report Share Posted January 12, 2013 I was under the impression that firearms found that are not on ticket, as long as it can be proven that they have not been used for criminal activities, can be registered and used/sold? The bit I didn't get was this... "Martin Bale, a registered firearms dealer in Cardiff, said some gun owners did not register their weapons following the introduction of tighter legislation in the 1990s." - I'd have thought the handguns would have been section 1 and the shotguns either section 1 or 2 depending on spec? Licencing was so different back then. you had an FAC issued to hold each firearm recorded on you cert but it was far more lax and shotguns? you could buy them without any numbers being recorded and the same when you sold them, nobody could say how many you had at a given time and few locked them up. The ticket was just a white bit of paper no photo etc. Although strangely gun crime wasn't the issue it is today, go figure......................... My wife was then a student and used to collect ammo for me from Preston - all legal and above board Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hedd-wyn Posted January 12, 2013 Report Share Posted January 12, 2013 From what I saw on news they all seemed to be pretty old. I don't know much about handguns to be honest but one of them looked something like an 1851 Colt Navy? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
al4x Posted January 12, 2013 Report Share Posted January 12, 2013 No it wasn't in 1996 my first sgc in 1992 was very similar to my current one so those shotguns if they were on ticket would have been listed by number the same as currently. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hodmedod.one Posted January 12, 2013 Report Share Posted January 12, 2013 B U G G E R.........all I have ever found in a wall was a dead cat!!!!!!!!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ST3V3 Posted January 12, 2013 Report Share Posted January 12, 2013 all I can say is that its a good job the guy that found them was honest and not a drug dealing scumbag looking to hide his stash Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scully Posted January 12, 2013 Report Share Posted January 12, 2013 Pre Hungerford(1987?)no shotguns (including those which would today be classed as section 1) were required to be registered individually,nor serial numbers recorded,hence it was very easy for many to 'disappear' when registration legislation was introduced following Hungerford.I believe CF handguns were already section 1 as they were unaffected by post Hungerford legislation as far as I know.So I'm a bit confused by the comments of RFD Martin Bale;he's either got his decades mixed up or is referring only to shotguns. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tam Posted January 12, 2013 Report Share Posted January 12, 2013 Looks like someone was not keen to hand in their guns back in 1996! Be interesting to see what exactly they found http://www.bbc.co.uk...litics-20994897 Get back to work - nothing to see here :whistling: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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