WARNING!!!

[Kane01]

Coming to you from the same people who spout the BS about not having loaded magazines...

 

[paul o']

Q.
Under UK law, placing snap caps in a shotgun for transportation is legal, though not strictly required. Police guidelines require shotguns to be unloaded, disassembled (where possible), concealed, and stored securely out of sight during transit (e.g., in a locked boot). [1, 2]
----- Sauce
metropolitan Police .
End

 

[timbrayford]

Q.
Under UK law, placing snap caps in a shotgun for transportation is legal, though not strictly required. Police guidelines require shotguns to be unloaded, disassembled (where possible), concealed, and stored securely out of sight during transit (e.g., in a locked boot). [1, 2]
----- Sauce
metropolitan Police .
End

Police guidelines and the firearms act are not one and the same thing.

 

[cjm1066]

WARNING! Don't transport your shotguns with cartridges in the same car! Police will treat this as intent to conduct gangland style drive by shootings! You now have to make 2 trips!

You are safer if you make a separate journey with the forend - that's Good Practice.

 

[spanj]

Better cancel the theme party for the weekend

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Those rounds wont stay in that belt long

 

[paul o']

Police guidelines and the firearms act are not one and the same thing.

I fully agree and one day when pigs fly they will used the act and not make it up as they go along !

 

[VSS]

I always thought it was recommended, for additional security, to put snapcaps in a shotgun, pull the triggers, and then remove the fore end. It's then impossible to re-cock the firing pins without refitting the fore end.

 

[Kalahari]

You are safer if you make a separate journey with the forend - that's Good Practice.

Quite tricky to make a separate trip without your forend!!!

David.

 

[Making holes in things]

Hi all,
A heads up! I have just been told NOT to LOAD SNAP CAPS IN ANY' FIREARM THAT IS BEING TRANSPORTED. ( INCLUDES SHOT GUNS) The police would now treat it as a loaded firearm. I was told they did not think to pass on this information?

I guess a gun will also be seen as being loaded should there be a note with the rifle stating "this rifle identifies itself as being loaded".

 

[Essexsussex]

bless them, they are obviously in fear of getting hurt when the snap caps unexpectedly eject from the shot gun.

Not that I use them, they serve no useful function.

They won’t be, as they will be wearing safety goggles

 

[timbrayford]

I always thought it was recommended, for additional security, to put snapcaps in a shotgun, pull the triggers, and then remove the fore end. It's then impossible to re-cock the firing pins without refitting the fore end.

Never heard that one before, but I think that the police are confusing attended with unattended shotguns

 

[Rake Aboot]

I used to be in the habit of using them to relieve the springs for storage.

 

[Hollowlegs]

Is it as much fun as a "carrot in a box" ? If you know, you know

Sean Lock, brilliant

 

[VSS]

Never heard that one before, but I think that the police are confusing attended with unattended shotguns

During transport, I meant.
A bit like removing the bolt from your rifle and keeping it on your person. You do the same with the shotgun fore end.
But even so, someone who was criminally minded could still fire two shots from a double barrelled shotgun without the forend. But not if the firing pins have been released onto snapcaps. That makes it impossible to fire until reunited with the fore end.
At least, that is my understanding of it.

 

[M@tt]

This smells like BS to me.
It's not loaded as no ammunition is involved so it doesn't matter what the police think, they are wrong and failed court cases cost them too much.
And we haven't seen @bullet chucker on this thread to provide clarification since Monday despite logging on daily.

 

[Bowland blades]

Q.
Under UK law, placing snap caps in a shotgun for transportation is legal, though not strictly required. Police guidelines require shotguns to be unloaded, disassembled (where possible), concealed, and stored securely out of sight during transit (e.g., in a locked boot). [1, 2]
----- Sauce
metropolitan Police .
End

But different forces in the UK often don't all say the same about many things

 

[paul o']

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[weblyish]

A clearly dummy round of clear/red plastic with a spring in.
No powder,shot,wad or primer.

Boiing went Zebedee,what am l missing?

Why so?a polite question.

Got a bollocking at a clay ground last year for opening the gun, ejecting and pocketing the snap caps

The guy running the site said that implied I did not check the guns were clear when I got them out and put them in the car.

It wasn't worth the argument that I just always put them in my SxSs even when I check them at home just before going out, I won't be going back anyway

 

[BenBhoy]

Better cancel the theme party for the weekend

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You've a weird bellybutton Tim

 

[Tim.243]

You've a weird bellybutton Tim

At least you can see mine...