Shotgun In A Rifle Cabinet

[Welsh_red 4,788]

A friend is going to apply for a shotgun licence and declared his shotgun will b kept at another blokes cabinet. The other guy has rifles in his cabinet. Someone has said the police wont allow that

 

Does anybody know if this is allowed or not. Might be a odd question but thought id ask here as its a fountain of knnwledge

[shropshire dan 467]

Suppose as long as the chap storing the shotgun has a shotgun licence and the chap who owns the shotgun dosnt have a key to the safe I doubt it'll be a problem. I sometimes store friends shotguns in my rifle safe but they don't have a key and I have a shotgun licence aswel as a rifle licence.

 

Always inform the FEO when the guns are stored in another location if different to the address of the licence holder.

Edited October 11, 2015 by shropshire dan

[Welsh_red 4,788]

Thats what i assumed. If he doesnt have a key i cant see a problem

[walshie 2,804]

Don't forget the other guy who owns the cabinet will have to put the shotgun on his SGC as "shared".

[SportingShooter 0]

The key word there is access.

 

If his shotgun is going to be on both certificates but he has no access to the other firearms in the safe, then that should be fine.

 

Not the other way around though obviously.

[tillylamp 1,846]

Don't forget the other guy who owns the cabinet will have to put the shotgun on his SGC as "shared".

it only becomes a shared cabinet if they both have a key each, and it doesn't matter if you put a shotgun in a rifle cabinet that's how i stored my rifle/shotgun, the fire arms officer was OK with it, at the end of the day they are locked safe and that's what matters,

[walshie 2,804]

 

Don't forget the other guy who owns the cabinet will have to put the shotgun on his SGC as "shared".

it only becomes a shared cabinet if they both have a key each, and it doesn't matter if you put a shotgun in a rifle cabinet that's how i stored my rifle/shotgun, the fire arms officer was OK with it, at the end of the day they are locked safe and that's what matters,

 

 

If the owner of the cabinet is the only one with the key and he has 24/7 access to a shotgun that isn't his, that's fine for 72 hours. After that the shotgun would need to go on his certificate as shared.

[matlee 1]

when I shared my dads cabinet, the officer told us that the shotguns would have to go on both certificates as shared, but that was fine as we had intended to do that anyway . But because i didn't have a firearms certificate at the time he instructed that the rifle would have to have a trigger lock on it so i couldn't use it, and the officer came back around to check that we had done all this before i was granted anything.

[tillylamp 1,846]

 

 

Don't forget the other guy who owns the cabinet will have to put the shotgun on his SGC as "shared".

it only becomes a shared cabinet if they both have a key each, and it doesn't matter if you put a shotgun in a rifle cabinet that's how i stored my rifle/shotgun, the fire arms officer was OK with it, at the end of the day they are locked safe and that's what matters,

 

 

If the owner of the cabinet is the only one with the key and he has 24/7 access to a shotgun that isn't his, that's fine for 72 hours. After that the shotgun would need to go on his certificate as shared.

 

yes your right walshie my mistake, my apologies.

[The one 8,524]

As above as long as he doesn't have access to the rifles , but why cant he get a small cabinet and store the gun himself ?.

[Welsh_red 4,788]

As above as long as he doesn't have access to the rifles , but why cant he get a small cabinet and store the gun himself ?.

Hes in a small flat and the landlord doesnt want a gun there for whatever reason. he doesnt mind the gun being at his friends and his friend having sole acess because their always out together anyway. 1 has loads of permissions and shotguns/rifles. The other is good with a lamp and can drive

[andyf 144]

^{My daughter holds a shotgun certificate, I have SG & FAC, we put all 3 of my shotguns on her certificate (hence 2 SG Certs with the same 3 shotguns on each).}

^{She has no access to the gun cabinet, and doesn't live at my address.}

^{Apart from a minor confusion by the local firearms admin, they 'thought' I had suddenly kept 6 shotguns, until I put them right & they actually read their own paperwork!!}

^{After that It all worked fine.}

^{This was done only so that my daughter can legally carry a gun on our syndicate pheasant shoot for 2 days a year. (Read this in America).}