perhaps the thief should be asked a few too !!! i was burgled in 2006 shotgun and air rifles stolen all locked up in a cabinet my crime was being at work !! i had to install top end alarm , change my two upvc doors to steel upvc and cut my front beech hedge down to 3ft upgrade shotgun cabinet ! gun was found and returned to me in 2016 !
But this farmer left his gun in the truck ! And it was stolen between lunchtime on Thursday and 11:20am Friday so a very different scenario to yours
yes point taken , but still theft , the onus is always on the owner , seems easy times for scumbag thieves
yes they said keys should be always with the certificate holder , but admitted the keys were well hidden and reasonable security was in place !! it was the recommendation of the firearms department to install burglar alarm and make other security measures . so i learned a lesson , expensive one !! wonder if the burglar has ?
knife and gun crime should be 10 years in prison minimum no appeals that would slow the criminals down police work hard and the courts are a joke ..
Sadly there's not much consistency across the various police forces and their FEOs when it comes to advising on security. I don't think any of them in my experience has ever asked about keys, other than to check that the missus doesn't know where they're kept. By and large they rely on us being sensible with our guns.
Dunno if it's still the case, but used to be that if you were caught commiting quite a few different types of crime, and also possessed a firearm whilst commiting them, the sentences were concurrent so there was no insentive NOT to be armed when doing them as it didn't make it any worse if you got caught!
NO !
