(1 December 2012, 11:54)BDG Wrote: Well, as Tigs said, it is only in very exceptional circumstances that anyone can have a pistol. He would have to have received an Osman Warning from the police (police have intelligence that their is a serious and real threat to life or serious injury) - publicly, two options are open on receiving one of these - relocation or protective custody, but the option does exist for a Chief Constable to decide that the individual can have a fire arm for self defense and this is a reasonable reason to be exempted from the law that pistols are illegal for people to own in day to day lives.
I know an Ex-IRA informant was involved in a gun fight in North Tyneside a few years back - no action was taken against him as he had been given permission to have a pistol.
yeah that right he was a super grass and has a sidearm with him all time has no FAC ,i think this could of been handled better me thinks