247sniper Posted February 23, 2011 Report Share Posted February 23, 2011 Hi Guys, Does anyone know if ACPO lists a guidline spreed sheet for the police to use when looking into rifles, bit like what BASC do (Guidence to the police) Cheers guys, Steve Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Gun Pimp Posted February 23, 2011 Report Share Posted February 23, 2011 Steve, There is a Home Office guide for Police in interpreting the Firearms Acts. It's on-line if I remember correctly. Cheers Vince Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
247sniper Posted February 23, 2011 Author Report Share Posted February 23, 2011 Steve, There is a Home Office guide for Police in interpreting the Firearms Acts. It's on-line if I remember correctly. Cheers Vince Cheers Vince, I know about the home office guidelines, but my local police say they are refuring to the ones by ACPO? Cant find any??? Cheers Steve. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jonevo Posted February 23, 2011 Report Share Posted February 23, 2011 Do police forces have to go by ACPO guidelines or are they Individually enforcing their own rules an example of this is: Some of us have asked for Lawful quarry to be placed upon our certificates, yet the police seem to not want to use this wording and are currently choosing certain species fox,rabbit, deer. If I were out at night using say a .223 which has the capability for muntjac,yet on the certificate the local police force have imposed a stipulation of fox,I would be breaking the law if I shot a muntjac. surely Using ACPO guidelines this calibre is well suitd for other species other than fox. I find the whole saga confusing.I would much rather see an even playing field for everyone, Yet some police forces seem to differ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
c18rch Posted February 23, 2011 Report Share Posted February 23, 2011 I've tried getting "For any legal purpose" but they won't wear that one. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
247sniper Posted February 23, 2011 Author Report Share Posted February 23, 2011 My local police say that a .204 Ruger is not suited for vermin as it is way to powerfull, we do have fox over here. They were following home office guidlines but no since ive got them on that they say they are now following guidlines set by ACPO?? The largets cf we are or have been allowed over here is at the moment is .22 hornet or .17 rem ! but according to them the .204 is not issued in the uk for vermin control????!!!! ARe they right???!!! Steve Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
whoowhoop Posted February 23, 2011 Report Share Posted February 23, 2011 Jonevo, if you were out at night and shot a muntjac, regardless of the legality of the calibre, that would be an offence. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TonyH Posted February 23, 2011 Report Share Posted February 23, 2011 The plods make up their own rules as they go along, for example with regard to what you can buy at an RFD without showing your FAC, and they bully RFDs (most of whom don't need much bullying) into going along with this. It's been the case for a long time. Those Brit shooting associations who've gone through the motions of resisting it haven't succeeded, and/or haven't tried hard enough. Maybe it's because there are just too few of us to be electorally significant, and the shooting sports have always been riven by factionalism. What kind of effort has been made, for example, to boycott the Olympic shooting events, to highlight the outrageous restrictions faced by Brit shooters? Damn all as far as I can see. Tony Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Orka Akinse Posted February 23, 2011 Report Share Posted February 23, 2011 All you need to do is issue a Freedom Of Information [FOI] request to your police force, they then have 21 days in which to respond to you with the information. Simples Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Orka Akinse Posted February 23, 2011 Report Share Posted February 23, 2011 The plods make up their own rules as they go along, for example with regard to what you can buy at an RFD without showing your FAC, and they bully RFDs (most of whom don't need much bullying) into going along with this. It's been the case for a long time. Those Brit shooting associations who've gone through the motions of resisting it haven't succeeded, and/or haven't tried hard enough. Maybe it's because there are just too few of us to be electorally significant, and the shooting sports have always been riven by factionalism. What kind of effort has been made, for example, to boycott the Olympic shooting events, to highlight the outrageous restrictions faced by Brit shooters? Damn all as far as I can see. Tony Not a truer word typed! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
andybrock Posted February 23, 2011 Report Share Posted February 23, 2011 Not a truer word typed! I agree, I often think the unofficial police guide lines are to make anything to do with firearms as difficult as possible for law abiding citizens in the hope we get sick of jumping thru hoops and give up firearms possession altogether. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Orka Akinse Posted February 23, 2011 Report Share Posted February 23, 2011 I agree, I often think the unofficial police guide lines are to make anything to do with firearms as difficult as possible for law abiding citizens in the hope we get sick of jumping thru hoops and give up firearms possession altogether. Never will I do that I'll jump thro as many as it takes each and everytime. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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