Merseyside Police carry out inspection at Anfield gun club

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#141 Post by Pippin89 »

1066 wrote:
GeeRam wrote:
HH1 wrote: this is one of the reasons I personally think it is stupid to have BASC stickers in the widows of cars.... the criminals know that BASC members are likely to be gun owners. Same problem with posting about guns on open social media platforms.
Couldn't agree more, on both points.
On that note - It can only be a matter of time before we hear that some NHS/police computer has been hacked and a complete list of all FAC/SGC holders is being circulated and sold to the highest bidder. it only needs to happen once.
Don't give the anti-gun brigade arguments!! lol
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#142 Post by MistAgain »

1066 wrote:
GeeRam wrote:
HH1 wrote: this is one of the reasons I personally think it is stupid to have BASC stickers in the widows of cars.... the criminals know that BASC members are likely to be gun owners. Same problem with posting about guns on open social media platforms.
Couldn't agree more, on both points.
On that note - It can only be a matter of time before we hear that some NHS/police computer has been hacked and a complete list of all FAC/SGC holders is being circulated and sold to the highest bidder. it only needs to happen once.
No need to hack , there as there more than enough currupt police officers and civilians .

As for the NHS , how many surgery staff have had a DBS check ?
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#143 Post by Sim G »

MistAgain wrote:
No need to hack , there as there more than enough currupt police officers and civilians .

Don't become a d1ck as you're lashing out because your club wasn't run properly...
In 1978 I was told by my grand dad that the secret to rifle accuracy is, a quality bullet, fired down a quality barrel..... How has that changed?

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#144 Post by mag41uk »

Probably more going on here than we are told.
no smoke without fire etc.
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#145 Post by HH1 »

We had a Police visit tonight......

We are a small club that shoots within the Fulwood Club (Liverpool) on Saturday Afternoons. We had finished shooting, had locked up the ranges and were about to leave when the Police turned up just before 6pm. A mixture of Uniform, a possible Detective and Firearms Licensing Personal.

I answered the door and they asked if I was in charge, I simply said that I was the Range Officer and that I would escort them in.
They checked all the records, Insurance, Attendance register, HO approval and asked our Club Secretary a bunch of questions. They checked our ammo stocks and I helped show them all the club guns which they checked off serial numbers against their list.

NO ISSUES FOUND!!!!

They were not "Heavy Handed" or nasty in any way... Everyone seemed happy.
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#146 Post by Andy632 »

Bit off turning up mob handed unannounced. Our last inspection was by two of the licencing team by prior appointment & they had given notice of everything they wanted to see so that we had it all ready for them.
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#147 Post by Dark Skies »

Andy632 wrote:Bit off turning up mob handed unannounced. Our last inspection was by two of the licencing team by prior appointment & they had given notice of everything they wanted to see so that we had it all ready for them.
Yes, I thought that too, just as everybody was about to go home.
Ours was just one guy who had made an appointment so that the person he needed to see with all the info and keys to hand would be there. Courtesy is still a 'thing' in Oxfordshire.
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#148 Post by MistAgain »

HH1 wrote:We had a Police visit tonight......

We are a small club that shoots within the Fulwood Club (Liverpool) on Saturday Afternoons. We had finished shooting, had locked up the ranges and were about to leave when the Police turned up just before 6pm. A mixture of Uniform, a possible Detective and Firearms Licensing Personal.

I answered the door and they asked if I was in charge, I simply said that I was the Range Officer and that I would escort them in.
They checked all the records, Insurance, Attendance register, HO approval and asked our Club Secretary a bunch of questions. They checked our ammo stocks and I helped show them all the club guns which they checked off serial numbers against their list.

NO ISSUES FOUND!!!!

They were not "Heavy Handed" or nasty in any way... Everyone seemed happy.
How many police exactly were involved in the visit ?
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#149 Post by HH1 »

Andy632 wrote:Bit off turning up mob handed unannounced. Our last inspection was by two of the licencing team by prior appointment & they had given notice of everything they wanted to see so that we had it all ready for them.
Ahhh Perhaps I should have said that we had been told to expect a visit sometime this month. We were told they would come "after 4".
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#150 Post by HH1 »

MistAgain wrote:
HH1 wrote:.
How many police exactly were involved in the visit ?
Eight, I believe that was the number of personnel we had sign our visitors register.
Uniformed Officers were all males (although in todays climate, perhaps I should not make such gender stereotypical assumptions)....
They didn't carry any weapons other than tasers. When asked, they said all of them were Police.
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