Antique firearm returned after police caution

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Antique firearm returned after police caution

The police wrecked Mr Holding's gun cabinets in order to gain access to his firearms and took away all of his certificated guns as well as some antique firearms.

By Selena Masson, Shooting Times

Monday, 24 December 2007

An antique firearm has been return to its owner after BASC managed to convince a chief constable to revoke a recent police caution.

BASC member, Ron Holding, found himself unwittingly involved in a North Wales police investigation into illegal firearms when the police arrived at his house with a warrant to search for illegal guns.

As Mr Holding was not at home, they wrecked his gun cabinets in order to gain access to his firearms and took away all of his certificated guns as well as some antique firearms.

Numerous calls were made to the case officer, but Mr Holding heard nothing more.

As a result of BASC's intervention, however, he was invited to attend a police interview concerning possession of a 7.5mm Swiss Model 1889 Schmidt-Rubin rifle. Despite BASC's advice to the contrary, Mr Holding accepted a caution from the police. Once accepted, a caution can have dire consequences for gun ownership as it suggests that the person is a law-breaker.

To find out what happened next...the rest of this article appears in 20 December issue of Shooting Times.

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Comments

neil todd

Thu, 3rd Jan 2008 10:34:53

Regarding accepting a caution, i accepted one in 2004 after defending myself in a knife attack on me, which I called the police and the ambulance service to report this attacker. I have since applied for a shotgun certificate and have been refused one because i accepted a caution in 2004, I have to re-apply in two years so i have a clear run of five years without a caution. I spoke to BASC, as i am a member, it was them who advised me to wait the two year, I was wondering if there is any legal way of getting this caution overturned as I was not at fault to recieve it, I did not have a solicitor at the time of the incident.

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