Thread: FAL question

Originally Posted by Bol Tackshin

@40mm - you are wise to get it in early. My advice is to keep the pressure in, and record every communication you have with police. Email is a wonderful thing!

Reading some of the advice here, Nicolas Taylor is guaranteed a living.
@10-Ring There isn't a legal requirement to sight the sellers licence - do you ask Gun City to show you a licence when you collect a gun there? But they definitely need to sight your licence (actually, they record the details of the transaction too).
@ROKTOY - Yes, a mate can buy/sell a gun on your behalf if they have a valid licence, but they commit an offence when they hand a firearm to you without sighting your valid licence. You also commit an offence when you take possession a firearm from said mate without having a valid licence.

This is serious stuff and if you fail to get it right and get caught out, you may not look like a fit and proper person.

I say this not to criticise, but in the hope that we all aim for 100% compliance, so we never have to surrender our firearms because we were in informed.

Well, if you are standing there 'under the immediate supervision' of a correctly licenced person you can be 'in possession' of the firearm while unlicensed. You just aren't allowed to sod off with it away from the 'immediate supervision' - although there really isn't a definition of what 'immediate supervision' is. I mean, if you're the license holder and you turn around to take a piss (which has to happen as a basic life function) while you're 'handling your own weapon' you aren't really supervising your mate. I dunno - the entire setup from the top down needs to be arsed out and restarted with a view to common dog.