Stopped by the police with guns in car?

[villaman]

The police knows every thing about you just before they pull you over any how

[ljgolf]

not long ago had a accident on way back from gun range called the police when they arrived told them i had two air guns and two air bottles on board,he rang the firearms officer and told him ,everything ok just start and put the green warning triangle on .no problem.

[1952paul0]

The police knows every thing about you just before they pull you over any how

what Police?? Have not seen one in quite a while.

[piggy589]

Never been stopped but did have a traffic car shadow me for several miles when I left a permission.

I was driving a scruffy pickup with a load of hardware in the cab.

The officer was alone and obviously anpr gave him no reason to pull me.

We came to a halt a traffic lights and he crept past while giving my vehicle a thorough visual inspection.

[rapidresponse1]

I think most reasonable police would be ok

[sandyman1963]

I try and shoot at a small 25 meter range at work every day so I take a rifle to work and lock it in a secure cabinet. We have armed troops on the gate who quit rightly search the odd car. If I’m stopped the first words out of my big gob are there is a air rifle in a gun slip in the boot and here is my permission to bring it on to site.

There is also a heavy police presence where I live and once or twice I’ve been stopped and if I’ve had one of my babies in the boot I tell plod straight away. There is no point getting the hump with the police they are just ring their job.

[aris]

I got stopped once and had a shotgun in my boot. If he wanted to check the boot, I’d tell him beforehand to avoid any shock . In this case he didn’t - so left it at that. I’m going to guess he must have known I was a firearms licence holder as he checked my drivers license details against PNC (I assume). Plus I was wearing an EJ Churchill cap

[Bellycrawler]

I've been stopped while walking, riding a m/bike & in cars / vans. Never had any issues at all. Sub 12ftb & fac / sgc.

[sidaorb]

Making me chuckle at the levels of misinformation people get told.

PNC vehicle check will only have markers if required, normally naughty boy/girl markers, local box markers are recorded per force and will be associated vehicle information (reports of dangerous driving not issued with a S59) ANPR will show these markers as well as insurance / MOT status.

Only when a person's check is done will it flag SGC/FAC holder.

Back on the OP though in the late 80's I was stopped on the M25...

'Whats in the boot sonny?’

'Bren gun, L1A1, Mossberg pump, Glock and 2 Smith handguns'

'Yeah, yeah who do you think you are the bloody A-Team?'

Handed them my RFD as I opened the boot, their faces were a picture.