Firearms seized following false allegation - anyone been through similar?

Hardly.

Somebody made an allegation. Police took it seriously. Police remove firearms to prevent the worst. You believe acting to prevent possible loss of life is ‘interference’? Interesting.

Issue goes away, supposedly. Was it real was it not. Police not in a hurry to give firearms back let’s give it a while, it’s clearly a volatile situation let’s see if it calms down or flares up.

Seems entirely sensible to me. Rough if you didn’t do anything wrong but properly cautious if you are the Police.

What do you want, another Plymouth ? It’s easy for you to whine when you accept everything at face value, it’s a lot harder to make a judgement in an emotional situation where actual truth may not be entirely clear, another blow up with a hormonal kid seems likely, and the consequences of a poor decision on your part is people getting killed. Just like Plymouth. Given that **** up it’s hard to blame the Police if they don’t want to repeat their error.
Well said
 
it seems anyone owning a FAC or SG certificate are guilty until they are proven innocent unfortunately
no but under the current guidelines being found not guilty or insufficient evidence to proceed is under the criminal balance of evidence/ burden of proof, ie beyond reasonable doubt. To minimise risk, for licensing purposes they will look at the civil burden of proof ie balance of probability. Or so a friendly FEO has told me
 
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