FAC/SGC Security

Dave31

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I've had a look online and I haven't found a clear answer. Do you need to lock your certificates away when not on your person? It seems sensible but I thought I'd ask you guys before emailing the FEO.
 
No
Think about it - the police send your certificates to you by second class mail, so why should you keep them locked up
It's the guns which are controlled items
The last time I looked there were no pressure bearing parts on the sheets of paper that make up my certificates 🙂

Cheers

Bruce

The reason I ask is that it can be used to purchase ammunition ect. Not pressure bearing but I wouldn't like it to fall into the wrong hands.

And I know that there is a photo on it, but passports are stolen and used often enough.
 
OMG the last thing we need is some good ideas club member of a licencing department reading this and thinking what a good idea I’ll create a new condition then people will be really really safe.
 
For my own piece of mind, my original cert is hidden securely at home and I have a colour photocopy marked with “COPY” in large fluorescent letters that I take when out with a firearm (just incase)

Real cert only comes out when shopping for ammo.
 
I keep a picture of my certicates driving licence etc on my phone.

Safest place for my keys is my pocket, then no one else in the house has access.
 
There are three types of rules when it comes to firearms ownership in the UK.

1. The actual law
2. Sensible things to do/not do that might vary by circumstances and personal preference
3. Made up rules passed around by hearsay and an almost superstitious belief in the power of FEOs

It sometimes seems to me that the 3rd type are the most numerous and the most restrictive!

(this isn't a dig at the OP personally, just a tongue-in-cheek observation from too much time in the Legal Issues pages... )
 
I keep mine at home, and l carry a photocopy (with my address & phone number blacked out), together with copies of my permission documents in case l feel it necessary to establish my bona fides “out on the cobbles.”

Know and obey the law, not an FEO’s/fourteen-year-old WPC’s/local Karen’s opinion.

maximus otter
 
mine stays at home in whatever drawer was nearby when. remember I have it on me if I buy ammo. I never carry it. in regards to being stolen, it has my photo... more likely the RFD would get grief for not checking it properly.
 
That’s the same place I keep my bolt for my old 22. Although im 8 hours in so far so probably even safer than your cert
Good luck, the upside is I learned how to get the drawers out of a chest we have had for 15 years, which I've never managed before

Every cloud.......
 
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