Eugene, the gun license was for moving the gun outside your house.
Smallbore, in 1973 I had my shotgun certificate revoked, ie not renewed, because I was not a member of a club, and had no written permission to shoot over any ground. We used to go rabbiting at a farm near Bedford, and pigeon shooting over some corn (rye) fields in Kent, but neither farmer would put his OK in writing.
My three guns were bought by a police sergeant serving at Hornsey, at an imposed price, since I could not move them out of the house for sale, and they warned the shop not to send anyone to pick them up. Holding on to them would have put me in violation of the 1968 firearms act. We owned our house, and I was a student at the Un. of London at the time. Maybe things have changed since then.
That experience moved me out of the UK, FAST!
I am to this day mystified by how I was not a public menace all the years I owned the guns without a license but became one three years after getting a license. Let the Americans here be warned.
Last edited by Shotgunlover; 09/28/13 10:57 AM.
