Originally Posted by
RonnieBird
It’s not quite as simple as that. He has a right to a section 2 (shotgun) certificate UNLESS the police licensing officer can show a Court differently. In many circumstances ( eg a domestic incident) , the police can unilaterally withdraw it on a temporary basis - as perhaps happened here. However, if the certificate holder can jump through certain hoops which are often defined by case law, then they’ll automatically get it returned by appealing to the Crown Court, where the judge has no more right to withhold it in “intuition “ than they do.
Obviously politicians and wokists will be wanting to make hay out of this dreadful case but, as I said earlier, I’m afraid these terrible things happen now and then however we try to prevent them.
This chap is a particular type of eccentric it seems ( what’s it called again?) but how many different types of unorthodox opinion must we identify and ban to be certain that none will become murderers ?
The answer is that you can’t really , and the more you try, the more you encroach on basic freedoms till in the end you prevent all dissent or controversy in case it is converted into a mass killing.