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[David71]

Out of curiosity, what ARE the rules on buying/owning a g-u-n outside a range/club? I know you can buy an airgun easily but must show ID; I thought anything else required a lot more forms and explanations what you want it for?

Outside of hunting or vermin control which I don't know much about as I'm a target shooter...
There are two 'main' types of certificate:
Section 1= firearms certificate. Pain in the backside to get, takes club membership and passing a probationary period. A 'good reason' given for each and every firearm you possess. Secure storage, personal references and a home visit from the local police along with a report from your GP regarding mental and physical health.

Section 2 = shotgun certificate (for shotguns with a maximum capacity of 3 shots. Effectively this is a must issue certificate as long as you have never been sentanced to > 3 years inside. You need secure storage and have a counter signatory to your application but you DON'T need club membership etc and DON'T need to provide a reason for wanting to own one.

But....FYI....at the moment all police forces appear to have stopped processing new applications to free up officers.

And as an aside, if you live in (or visit) Scotland and have a perfectly legal airgun you will now need a licence as wee Jimmy Krankie changed the rules last year....nice way to waste scarce police resources!

[David71]

How many boxes of cartridges did you get?

Just askin' for a friend.

Didn't need any; got about 250 buckshot and 150 solid slug in the cabinet already....along with 1500 .22rf rounds...

[GhostofTarbera]

Before all this started I bought a bread machine because I've been wanting one for a while. Once I saw how much flour I was going through I bought a few extra bags so I am the original hoarder. Sorry not sorry

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[d000hg]

Have to admit....on the way home from the client site last Friday I stopped off at a local shooting supplies shop and bought a new 12 bore s-b-s

Good timing as gun shops and ranges have been declared non-essential.

Out of curiosity, what ARE the rules on buying/owning a g-u-n outside a range/club? I know you can buy an airgun easily but must show ID; I thought anything else required a lot more forms and explanations what you want it for?

[BR14]

We're still taking about guns, yes?

[ladymuck]

Can you field strip it in the dark yet?

Just askin' for a friend, like.

We're still taking about guns, yes?

[DoctorStrangelove]

wait till we start talking about stripping our AK47s!

Can you field strip it in the dark yet?

Just askin' for a friend, like.

[DoctorStrangelove]

Have to admit....on the way home from the client site last Friday I stopped off at a local shooting supplies shop and bought a new 12 bore s-b-s

Good timing as gun shops and ranges have been declared non-essential.

How many boxes of cartridges did you get?

Just askin' for a friend.

[hairymouse]

Before all this started I bought a bread machine because I've been wanting one for a while. Once I saw how much flour I was going through I bought a few extra bags so I am the original hoarder. Sorry not sorry

[NickFitz]

Flour is hard to get too. Presumably bought mostly by people with no idea how to bake a loaf!

That’s what I thought in Sainsbury’s last week. The baking supplies aisle was stripped bare except for baker’s chocolate and cream of tartar (though there were only a few tubs of that left), and there were no eggs. Meanwhile, the shelves of the cake section were full to overflowing. Why didn’t they just buy the cakes?!

Going to be a lot of people eating soggy flat sponge cakes as they snap at each other this week

[David71]

wait till we start talking about stripping our AK47s!

Have to admit....on the way home from the client site last Friday I stopped off at a local shooting supplies shop and bought a new 12 bore s-b-s

Good timing as gun shops and ranges have been declared non-essential.

[d000hg]

We found a bakery wholesaler and bought 32kg for us and some friends to split.

[d000hg]

Can you get hold of dry (or even better, live) yeast and plain flour?

Flour is hard to get too. Presumably bought mostly by people with no idea how to bake a loaf!

I saw a report today from a refuse site food waste is up 30% to post-XMas levels with all the short-life food people panic-bought and are now throwing away.

[vetran]

The world is ending and this place turns into The Great Contractor Bake Off

wait till we start talking about stripping our AK47s!

[Paralytic]

The world is ending and this place turns into The Great Contractor Bake Off