Thread: FAL question

Originally Posted by Cigar

I can find nothing in the legislation about the buyer needing to confirm the seller has a FAL.

Same here.

Also the whole 'your license has expired hand them in or transfer to a FAL holder' is police policy is it not??

Not policy - it is the law. You may not possess a firearm without a current (valid) firearm licence. It is up to you to make arrangements for their safe keeping by someone that is licenced. The person needs to confirm your new licence is current by sighting it before they hand your firearms back to you, or they commit an offence. They also commit an offence if they return the firearms to you and you haven't yet received the new licence.
Fluff around this at your peril. It is hot enough fuel to burn any chance of a renewal if you are found to be in possession of illegally held firearms.

Originally Posted by Bol Tackshin

Not policy - it is the law. You may not possess a firearm without a current (valid) firearm licence. It is up to you to make arrangements for their safe keeping by someone that is licenced. The person needs to confirm your new licence is current by sighting it before they hand your firearms back to you, or they commit an offence. They also commit an offence if they return the firearms to you and you haven't yet received the new licence.

Well, seeing as the gun is in unlicensed hands now. Then does the law say what the unlicensed, person is to do if they are put into a position where they have a firearm due to the police not doing their job to the required standard?
This is an impossible situation, the gun is to be put into the hands of a licensed person, solving the problem.
No judge in their right mind would hear a case like that. Well I would throw the prosecuter out of the court room if I were the judge. And punish them for being a dickhead.