I think you will find nowhere in any UK armed forces basic training (or further training) do they specifically cover "finding a non-military firearm".

in fact it is part of EVERY weapons handling test that you find an unattended weapon and demonstrate making it safe.



Its still rediculous. Imagine you encounter an armed robbery, you disarm the robber.

By not immediately dropping the gun (once the need for self defence has passed), then by that law you are in "possession" of the gun and committing a crime!!

how fucking rediculous.

Even more stupid when you consider most police forces regularly run gun amnesties allowing you to walk into the cop shop with a gun and hand it in no action taken.

if they can make that allowance for what will often be serious criminals under the guise of an amnesty then why the hell cant they do the same for this guy????

Do they want to alienate the public even more??? or has it got to the stage now where they just dont care???