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Robin128 wrote:

Sim G wrote::?:

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They don't seem bothered about Firearms in the Garden in Kosovo......Not one of them is wearing hearing protection....How stupid and dangerous is that? :lol:

I guess you did when firing Howitzers 25... but in combat..does one use ear protection?

I'd be freaking thinking I couldn't hear someone sneaking up behind me etc...but there again...the only bugger likely to sneak up on me in my world would have been the Chief Accountant looking for the feckin Kalamazoo key.

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Naw Robin, that was in the Sixties, no hearing protection was given or even thought about. It was especially bad when you were firing them in the Anti Tank roll using maximum charge. Some people stuck bits of sheeps wool in their ears to try and minimize the pain. Don't ask how they got it off the sheep though. :lol:

BTW I received compensation a few years later for about 15% hearing loss, some of which I used to buy a 45 Auto.

Why do you think you should not? You have the "property owners" permission and you are not shooting over it, so why not?

I don't know! that was the reason for my post. I am not familiar enough with the legislation to know for definite and obviously on such a potentially serious matter I wanted to court the considerable wealth of knowledge on here before I did it. With solvents, oil etc. it is less messy to clean outside. Whilst there doesn't seem to be definitive answer, I am going to err on the side of caution and stay indoors.

This question bothers me somewhat??

Are you thinking of having a crack at something over the Golf Course from your back garden, is my first thought,,,and then using the old cleaning it ploy???

My next thought is,,,what has it got to do with anyone what you do with your LICENCED firearm in your own garden??

My third thought is.....sod em!!

My forth thought is where this is leading,,,,is a suggestion that any person wishing to possess a licenced registered firearm have to obtain or at least inform any near neighbours that you have or want to keep a firearm on your premisis before being granted an FAC or SGC,,,,,,JUST LIKE OBTAINING Planning permission forthcoming here????

Not good,, Not Good,,,,

Barney hell no. I would never discharge a firearm in my garden!

I'm just beginning to wonder whether someone wishes to intimidate one's neighbour or just appear macho.

Well once again Robin has decided to turn personal! What an absolutely outrageous and unfounded statement to make. You know nothing about me or where I live etc. and in the space of two weeks you have suggested that I am a bigot, ignorant, I like to intimidate my neighbours and appear macho! The OP was a genuine question, to court the wealth of knowledge on here and try and ascertain what the legal position is. Your comments contribute nothing to this thread. If you have nothing useful, funny or interesting to add to one of my threads then.......don't add anything. Thank you. :x

Mike357,

I am flabbergasted by your reply, especially your reference to my reply to Phil* in "You may be a Muslim".

This reply was to Phil* not you...per the first and subsequent sentences of my reply.

You asked me "Robin, as I had no issue with the OP and supported it's reinstatement, does that mean that I am a mindless bigot and part of the ignorant minority?"

And my reply was what Mike? ... "Don't know you well enough...you decide."

As for my response in this thread there are a couple on here also perplexed by your question.

This is a forum Mike...expect people to be candid about their feelings and views, when you ask for them.

In the year of our Lord, 1314, patriots of Scotland, starving and outnumbered, charged the fields of Bannockburn. They fought like warrior poets. They fought like Scotsmen. And won their freedom.

I like that above,,,,William Wallace and co yes?? CRACKING!!

No I didnt think for one minute that you would discharge a firearm in your garden,,unless of course you live out in the middle of no where where it was safe, within the law and no else around to know any different,,,,I was thinking outside the box there....

I think your question is a reasonable one, given the fact that you are unsure of how you stand,,,,I WOULD AGREE that some people if they looked over the hedge and saw someone sitting there with a gun and a beer however may well totaly misinterpret the situation and be ringing the old bill,especialy if they hapen to be abit anti or simply dont know you or like you,,,as to if they could or would arrest you is another matter,, as Sim G said arrest you for what??

barney57 wrote:In the year of our Lord, 1314, patriots of Scotland, starving and outnumbered, charged the fields of Bannockburn. They fought like warrior poets. They fought like Scotsmen. And won their freedom.

I like that above,,,,William Wallace and co yes?? CRACKING!!

No I didnt think for one minute that you would discharge a firearm in your garden,,unless of course you live out in the middle of no where where it was safe, within the law and no else around to know any different,,,,I was thinking outside the box there....

I think your question is a reasonable one, given the fact that you are unsure of how you stand,,,,I WOULD AGREE that some people if they looked over the hedge and saw someone sitting there with a gun and a beer however may well totaly misinterpret the situation and be ringing the old bill,especialy if they hapen to be abit anti or simply dont know you or like you,,,as to if they could or would arrest you is another matter,, as Sim G said arrest you for what??

In addition to my post above,,,I would say that if you or anyone was in your garden firing off rounds or acting strange with a gun and a beer or being at all threatening,, then I would full well expect an ARV to rock up on the doorstep,,,reverse the roles and situation and what would you do??

I usualy clean my guns indoors,, but I am lucky enough to have an outside workshop and a barn where I could go and clean my guns,, on the other hand why shouldnt I be able to, on a nice sunny summers day be able to sit at my patio table in the garden and clean my guns??? as I said before its down to your neighbours and or passers by at the time and how they percieve you and the situation at the time....I would say that if one was an anti,,,then you can expect a call from the old bill,,,,hopefully the officers attending would risk assess and make all the right decisions, ensure all was in order and leave you to it..