[Brithunter]

My nephew visits during the day as is allowed by his bail conditions. He is awaiting a trial for a non violent offence and suddenly the Police didn't like this. They also tried to claim I was :-

Manufacturing guns.

Of course this came to nothing. They have refused to renew my licences and will not discuss it and we do not have the funds to fight this in the courts. The Police drag it out and run the costs up as high as possible and if you win you have to pay your own costs as it's very rare for costs to be awarded against the Police. However if you lose the Police always get their costs awarded.

We did try to get a lawyer to take it on but he renaged on the agreement of fixed costs and it then turned out the likely costs of winning would be aroung £6000 or $10,000 US if we lost then it would be probably double or more.

There is no NRA like you have here. The organisations like the BASC will only fight a case that is a sure fire winner and in the UK there are virtually no such cases. The police make it up as they go along like taking stuff that requires no licence or permits like the books and Bow yet it seems getting the stuff back is almost impossible.

Now if they would sort out the nephews case, it's been adjourned four times already, then perhaps we can get some closure on this whole thing. He never had access to my collection but hey what does that matter.

Velkom to da state Komrade.