No real sympathy to be honest. The law that was introduced recently requiring a licence if you had an air rifle is something that makes absolutely no sense IMHO, but sadly its the law. Presumably this guy will now have a criminal record, what would the offence legally be titled, does anyone know?.

I am a little bit puzzled by the paragraph below and it would be interesting if there was some more information to clarify this.

"He added Gear had not got round to getting a licence at the time of the offence. Subsequent attempts to secure one had, through no fault of Gear’s, failed to prove fruitful"

Kindest regards

Barrel