The Firearms Rules 1989, which provided that firearms certificates were subject to a condition that shotguns were to be stored securely "so as to prevent, so far as reasonably practicable, access to guns by an unauthorised person", prevented a certificate holder from allowing any unauthorised person, including an unauthorised adult occupant of the house, from knowing the location of the key to the gun store.

CA (Civ Div) (Lord Bingham of Cornhill LCJ, Pill LJ, Hale LJ)

06/03/2000