ab28 Posted October 12, 2016 Report Share Posted October 12, 2016 We both have up to-date shotgun certificates. My son in-law is moving in with us for his house re-building project. His shotgun will be stored in my cabinet. What is the legal and best way to do this, should we sign his gun onto my cert? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Westley Posted October 12, 2016 Report Share Posted October 12, 2016 (edited) We both have up to-date shotgun certificates. My son in-law is moving in with us for his house re-building project. His shotgun will be stored in my cabinet. What is the legal and best way to do this, should we sign his gun onto my cert? Notify your local FEO or install a second cabinet that only he has keys for. Either way the local Firearms Department must be made aware, to do things legally. Depends how long he is staying for really. Edited October 12, 2016 by Westley Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bostonmick Posted October 12, 2016 Report Share Posted October 12, 2016 If storing his guns in your cabinet along with yours then all guns will need to be on both certificates as shared. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wildrover77 Posted October 12, 2016 Report Share Posted October 12, 2016 Some police forces use common sense. They allow this to be covered by the 72hour rule. North Yorks did with me and my brother in laws shotgun. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
steve_b_wales Posted October 12, 2016 Report Share Posted October 12, 2016 If storing his guns in your cabinet along with yours then all guns will need to be on both certificates as shared. +1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Harry136 Posted October 12, 2016 Report Share Posted October 12, 2016 When I stored my friend guns for a few weeks, I produced a letter giving me permission to hold his gun for X number of weeks with all his details on and sent a signed copy to the police. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ab28 Posted October 12, 2016 Author Report Share Posted October 12, 2016 thanks for replys. i emailed our fire arms dept earier. i will post there reply. maybe in a week or two Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
team tractor Posted October 13, 2016 Report Share Posted October 13, 2016 My mate shared a cabinet with his dad for years and the Feo said its ok . They only said something when his dad applied for his fac. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bostonmick Posted October 13, 2016 Report Share Posted October 13, 2016 A verbal OK is very good.but not worth the paper it is written on. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jonny thomas Posted October 13, 2016 Report Share Posted October 13, 2016 My guns are in the same cabinet as my boys guns The boys have their guns on their certs and all guns are on mine I hold the cabinet keys and nobody else has access to the keys This was OK when I asked Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Evilv Posted October 16, 2016 Report Share Posted October 16, 2016 (edited) Some time ago when the specifications of cabinets changed, my cabinet was deemed not suitable for storage of a shotgun (although it had been fine for twenty years before that). I arranged with the local firearms department to keep my shotgun at a mates house around the corner. There was no problem about this, since as we both only had shotguns at that time, and since you can posses a few of these on a certificate, as long as the police had a record of where the gun was, and as long as they had confidence that it was secure and only accessible by a person with an appropriate certificate there was no problem. Around here, the police have over more than forty years with only one exception, been extremely fair and reasonable in dealing with nay requests I have made. The only exception was about 28 years ago just after some lunatic ran amok around a local suburb and shot two policemen with his father's licensed shotgun. Then as I was renewing my firearms certificate, we had some trouble with a particular officer, who was rude and objectionable to my wife, demanded access at 11 o'clock at night to my gun cabinet OF MY WIFE when I was away on business which she refused and could not have lawfully done anyway, and he actually wrote and said he was going to refuse my certificate on grounds that shooting once a fortnight in summer and once a month in the bad weather, was not good reason for possession ...... I wrote back to him quoting the firearms acts and threatening court action if he refused and the certificates duly arrived a week later. This was the one and only case where I had anything less than courteous, sensible interaction with the police over forty one years of mixed shotgun and part one firearms possession and use. Edited October 16, 2016 by Evilv Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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