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Re: MARS / Lever Relaease
Posted: Mon Oct 26, 2020 12:08 am
by Sim G
A club is required to record to date, make, caliber serial number and type of each firearm on a persons FAC for target shooting, when used. That is an obligation placed upon the club. We see day in and day out, variations in how firearms are recorded on FACs and ultimately theses sometimes wrongly recorded types are all the police have to go on, as that's what's been submitted to them.
Of course the police could just have not bothered. Not written or kept those who own the now prohibited firearms that the date for enactment has come, the FAC holder misses out on his compensation, gets arrested for possession of a prohibited weapon which is a strict liability offence and may receive a prison sentence, but most certainly will lose their ticket.
Hussah! There's one in the eye for the Rozzers and worth every effort of throwing whatever correspondence in the bin...
Re: MARS / Lever Relaease
Posted: Mon Oct 26, 2020 8:51 am
by Mattnall
The HO publication on approval of clubs wants the club to record the type (that's firearm type, not action type).
This publication was actually withdrawn just under two weeks ago and I can find nothing that supersedes it yet.
Re: MARS / Lever Relaease
Posted: Mon Oct 26, 2020 10:13 pm
by IainWR
Quarters wrote:Surely the National organisations will be able to issue guidance to clubs?
They must have access to legal advice that can clarify what clubs legally have to about these letter?
OK, I'm missing something here. I have (as far as I know - the NRA has about 20 admin staff and a letter may have arrived in the wrong place though from the context I imagine it is something that every other member of staff would immediately send to me) no letter that fits the matter in discussion. I am the named individual on the HOA and the FAC holder for NRA-as-a-club. Anyone like to tell me WIHIH?
legal@nra.org.uk or 01483 797777 ext 154
Iain
NRA Safety Legal & Technical Services
Re: MARS / Lever Relaease
Posted: Tue Nov 03, 2020 10:16 am
by Chuck
The Offensive Weapons Act 2019 introduced new prohibitions under the Firearms Act 1968 on certain rapid-firing rifles and “bump stocks”, which increase the rate of fire of self-loading rifles.
Err were SLR's not stolen from you all after Hungerford?? Is MARS classed as an SLR then?
Re: MARS / Lever Relaease
Posted: Wed Nov 04, 2020 9:58 am
by Blackstuff
Chuck wrote:The Offensive Weapons Act 2019 introduced new prohibitions under the Firearms Act 1968 on certain rapid-firing rifles and “bump stocks”, which increase the rate of fire of self-loading rifles.
Err were SLR's not stolen from you all after Hungerford?? Is MARS classed as an SLR then?
It was for semi-auto .22RFs. You could get a bumpstock to work on them with an accompanying muzzle device to boost recoil. Utterly pointless, but utterly fun.
Re: MARS / Lever Relaease
Posted: Thu Dec 03, 2020 11:44 am
by DanTheMan
According to the Facebook group, LR amnesty begins on 10th December and every owner should receive an email or letter, with procedures etc, by the 14th.
Re: MARS / Lever Relaease
Posted: Thu Dec 03, 2020 2:20 pm
by Blackstuff
2020 the year that just keeps on kicking
Re: MARS / Lever Relaease
Posted: Thu Dec 03, 2020 2:45 pm
by Airbrush
DanTheMan wrote:According to the Facebook group, LR amnesty begins on 10th December and every owner should receive an email or letter, with procedures etc, by the 14th.
About time, I could do with the £.
Re: MARS / Lever Relaease
Posted: Thu Dec 03, 2020 2:53 pm
by Airbrush
Re: MARS / Lever Relaease
Posted: Thu Dec 03, 2020 2:58 pm
by mr smith
Airbrush wrote:DanTheMan wrote:According to the Facebook group, LR amnesty begins on 10th December and every owner should receive an email or letter, with procedures etc, by the 14th.
About time, I could do with the £.
While I do feel sorry for those having these taken from them but that's pretty much how I feel.I was about to put my LR up for sale when this kicked off.