Quote Originally Posted by Rich View Post
We had a club member for a few years who was a serving police officer attached to a rapid response firearms unit. One day a member was using the club SKAN to check his rifle and found it was a shade warm. He was horrified to realise that the police officer - I'll call him A - was at the next bench, and must have witnessed it. A stood up and said to him, there's nothing in it for me to nick you or report you, you are doing exactly what I would wish you to do, you are behaving responsibly and checking your gear, and if you find it warm then you are doing something about it, here and now, (as fortunately it wasn't heavily AT'd). Basically, he said, you're making life easy for me so why should I want to stop you? He had a few things of his own to say about AT too.

Which illustrates very nicely the spirit of the law being applied in a pragmatic way. Those on here who go in fear of being found with a 12.1 ft-lbs airgun are casting law enforcement as out to get them - they are not, and anyway they have far more pressing matters in which to invest their time and forensics budgets. For the conscientious shooter this is nothing to get excited about. For the scrote who is shooting cats, this is another charge that can be added to the charge sheet.