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Jnadreth wrote:Yes....6 L86 LSW's are still missing :lol: And people call us irresponsable

A recent Met Police press release about taking "evil guns!" off the streets featured a photo of a haul including what looked like an LSW. In usual plod fashion the image was fairly low-res so you couldn't blow it up enough to definitely say it was an airsoft gun, but...

I would retort that perhaps they should stop loosing firearms in the first place I mean the weapons they loose are illegal for us to own while the police show them off at every opertunity. Ohhh that time they got caught aiming weapons at each other and joking around with them....or that time on a training exercise when 1 armed officer shot and killed another. The Guards are in the cells and the criminals are running riot

Many moons ago on a clay shoot it occurred to me that there were too few cartridges in my bag to finish the round ... Far too few ... On investigation it turned out that my daughter who was aged about 6 or 7 at the time had put some in her coat pocket ...
Can you imagine what would have happened on Monday at school !!!

I remember returning to a pub after wildfowling with a mate. We'd stripped of all our kit but when he sat down a shotgun shell fell from his pocket. The barmaid just laughed when he apologised, took the shell from him and added it to the collection, stacked in a row above the optics. Quite a few old winchester extremes there to.

There are a couple of police forces who will pay a bounty (£99) if a garage will report it when they discover ammo or guns in customer's cars.

Scotsgun wrote:I remember returning to a pub after wildfowling with a mate. We'd stripped of all our kit but when he sat down a shotgun shell fell from his pocket. The barmaid just laughed when he apologised, took the shell from him and added it to the collection, stacked in a row above the optics. Quite a few old winchester extremes there to.

There are a couple of police forces who will pay a bounty (£99) if a garage will report it when they discover ammo or guns in customer's cars.

Paying Bounties Next thing you know all firearms enthusiasts will be sent to camps sign01 More immediately though, thats just quota filling-plus I wonder if that is illegal because isn't it bribary? Well guns only an idiot or someone very forgetful would send an armed car to the garage but ammunition???...a stray cartridge could fall out of the box on a shoot and you'd never know...and that would get you arrested?

LOL!
At any given time there is anywhere from 10 - 30 assorted rounds of .22 to 577-.450 rolling about loose on the floor of my truck under the seat.

577....does you own a Martini Henry? :shakeshout:

I do have to remember to check all my trouser pockets when I have been Practical shooting on the range as I have on occasion found the odd .22 round (and empties) that have made their way into one of my lower pockets on my combats during a course of fire where you have to clear a jam or do a gun clear when changing to pistol from rifle, they seem to bounce into some strange locations you wouldn't think of.

Could be worse...you could leave a handgun in a toilet. Remember that one !

577....does you own a Martini Henry?

I have a Gehendra.

But a Mk 4 Martini Henry is on the to buy list.