Possession of ammunition components with the intent to illegally manufacture Section 1 ammunition.

[Bowland blades]

Rather agree with you, abd indeed the latest Home Office guidance - there should be a high threshold to gun ownership in the UK, and IMHO we about have it correct. The guidance states the focus should be on the individual and their suitability rather on what particular type of firearm etc.

The system is chocked by endless paperwork that achieves really very little.

Mind you if we didn’t have such a beauracratic system what fill the pages of the SD

Correct ! Perhaps we could all stop troubling ourselves over those kinds of posts , I have a strong feeling 90% are not telling the full story .