Sharing ammo safe
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Presumably your local police cleared this arrangement in the first place, in which case writing your name on your ammo boxes seems sufficient.
However, nobody can rely on the police to know the law and just because Plod A said something was OK doesn't mean Plod B won't be a dick about it and penalise you.
Why don't you just buy your own ammo safe /locked box and use that? My force is content with a £10 locked cash box bolted in place. (Ot at least, they have been for the past 20odd yrs.
However, nobody can rely on the police to know the law and just because Plod A said something was OK doesn't mean Plod B won't be a dick about it and penalise you.
Why don't you just buy your own ammo safe /locked box and use that? My force is content with a £10 locked cash box bolted in place. (Ot at least, they have been for the past 20odd yrs.
No.
Just be careful that the total held in the safe at any one time doesn't exceed the combined allowance of both FACs.
(I'm assuming that you both have the same calibre rifles? If not, then it gets a bit complicated as you don’t have authorisation to have access to calibres of ammunition not listed on your FAC).
Recent FEO visit - locks on the guns that are mine in the shared cabinet. But I'm guessing that as long as the total doesn't exceed one's personal total, it's OK if one has permission for it.
There is no issue as long as you don't exceed your ammo limits. My son and I share rifles and ammo.
Asked my FEO at recent renewal about total ammo. He didn't know the answer. Office came back the total is what is on individual certificate not the combined total.
Being our case 1000 .22lr on both certs. So max holding is 1000 not 2000.
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Asked my FEO at recent renewal about total ammo. He didn't know the answer. Office came back the total is what is on individual certificate not the combined total.
Being our case 1000 .22lr on both certs. So max holding is 1000 not 2000.
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Thats what I thought.
Otherwise what would happen if I had 303 and not, say 243, but my sharing partner had 243 and no 303 holding?
Same as access to rifles on another FAC but not on your own in a shared storage solution.
I was told that by my FEO too, but argued (successfully) that that cannot be correct. Not least because the two people sharing might not have the same allowance as each other. For example, an experienced stalker might have 500 rounds of CF ammunition listed on their FAC, and be mentoring their own son or daughter. Shared storage, but the youngster, being an inexperienced beginner, has only got 100 rounds listed on their FAC.
By your reckoning, if the total of an individual certificate cannot be jointly exceeded, they're now restricted to just 50 rounds each, which would prevent the experienced stalker from fulfilling their deer management role.
My daughter and I, when we shared storage, held ammo up to our combined total, to avoid just such a situation.
Jim Hutton
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In that case you would need an ammo safe each otherwise you would have access to ammo that you are not authorised to possess.
Exactly what I was thinking of.
And the same goes if my holding is 1000 and the store buddy's is 500 then they could have access to unauthorised amounts.
There is no distinction between calibre, cartridge size and quantity when it comes to possession of unauthorised ammunition.
The law has not been thought out well, not written by anyone with practical experience of shooting.
But beware of a rewrite, it would only get worse.
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