Gwion wrote:Your choice is getting a licence!
Reading the legislation it seems penalties for infractions by licenced shooters are heavier than those for criminals who are found with firearms.
It’s actually how it works with driving offences.
If you have a license your subject to those conditions, but if you have no license you never agreed to adhere to those conditions so when found guilty of an offence is usually only going to be driving without a license and the other things that can be charged to a non-license holder.
They’ve changed it recently to reflect this, now the charges are separated into;
Penalty - if previously authorised to drive and Penalty - if never been authorised to drive
As they realised very quick that it was better to have never got a license at all and just keep driving and getting less tickets and charges then someone with a license.
It’s a weird world when you dive into the legal system, it all functions on “assumptions” that you fully understand the laws, and once you start reading you start to wonder, did the people who write this even understand it?