Any new UK firearms restrictions?

In light of the recent terrorist actions, have any additional restrictions been implemented or proposed on the legal firearms owners in the UK.  I have seen some onerous reports in a forum.  Your losses are felt here with much anguish.  Mr. Vickers is a hero to us as well.

I apologize. I meant UK & Canada. Both had terrorist attacks. Most recent in Canada. We had a hatchet job terrorist in New York too. Only here the government calls it work place violence.

They are proposing to have unanounced "visits" possibly to try and catch out people storing weapons and ammunition incorrectly. This has been slipped in under the guise of prevention of terrorism act. Totally unworkable due to loss of staff and firearms owners being out at work, so they'll have to ring and arrange a day and time to visit. Some feos try and interpret the guidance lines to suit themselves which just makes more work for them in the long run, they don't realise if we have good reason for wanting a wepon of a particular calibre ( say 222 or 223 for fox ) and good reason is given then it's a no brainer they can't refuse. I'm lucky I got hold of a Parker Hale  sporterised 303 some weeks ago I provided good reason and the turnround time was 3 days which is something of a record. But I do have a good working relationship with the firearms dept staff, they know me and my son and trust us to do the right thing.

Anyone who doesn't take proper precautions in storing their firearms, ammo and reloading components should not be allowed to have them. Surprise inspections or no. Either it must be under your direct control or locked away.

"Surprise inspections or no."

The problem there lies with the different privacy laws in South Africa, The U.K. & The U.S.A. There is a specific enumerated "Right" written into the U.S. constitution. (The Fourth Amendment guards against unreasonable searches and seizures, along with requiring any warrant to be judicially sanctioned and supported by probable cause.). I don't know if there is a similar law in South Africa, but I do know there isn't one in the U.K. The "Right to keep & bear arms" is also written in in detail in the U.S.A. as the Second Amendment.

There is also (in many states) a right to armed self defense, something very hard to do if the gun is dismantled stored locked & so is the ammunition!

In Britain it is a different situation as keeping an arm is a privelidge under British law , not a right. Those two variations in law make a huge difference!

I hear you about responsible safe storage, but it used to go way beyond that in the UK.
Back when I had a ticket there, in the 1970's, the rule was.

Gun stored in an approved locked container attached to "the fabric" of the building so it couldn't be carried off for later opening.

An essential part of the mechanism removed & stored in a separate, approved locked container attached to "the fabric" of the building. (Usually the bolt).

Ammunition stored in  a separate location (different room would do) in an approved, locked container attached to "the fabric" of the building from the firearm & its essential part.

In the U.K. individual rounds of ammunition were counted to a "to have" & a "to buy" limit.

Woe betide the numpty who made them the same if the firearms sergeant didn't explain to him that this meant you had to fire every bullet before you could go & buy more! A common request was "500 to buy & 550 to hold", that way you'd buy a brick when you got down to 50 rounds. Each purchase was recorded in your "ticket" (permit) a huge fold out thing covered in rubber stamps in a blue cardboard cover, that documented everything & you always had to have it with you. Even folded it was huge.

As an example I used .50 cal ammunition cans or 30 cal ammunition cans, locked with combination padlocks but bolted to the floorboards with carriage bolts (coach-bolts to our Brit friends) having the domed head only showing under the floorboards & with the nut & lock nut epoxied to the threads inside.

Remember this was 30+ years a go. I believe some of the rules have actually gotten less restrictive.

DairyFarmer;
In THEORY your right. If the programme is run the way it is proposed...but its not. I can't speak for elsewhere, but here in Canada we have no shortage of the police overstepping.
They "trump - up" the siezures, as well. If they make a large bust somewhere they like to do a news conference & display the weapons they have confiscated. Then, on the next bust - you see the same firearms (always mislabelled & mis quoted by media) - just in different positions.
They sieze at every opportunity. (Ft.McMurray flooding last year was a prime example).
If they gain access to your house for ANY reason - they go sniffing around for firearms..'cuz once their in-they don't need a warrant. Ie: they attend for a "domestic". While there they ALWAYS start sniffing around.(If the guy had a firearm out for cleaning & it hasn't been locked up yet, you lose!) Worse yet-all my ex has to do is tell the police that she isn't comfortable with me owning firearms any more, & they will be barging thru the door & taking them all. And that's without ANY threats & / or reason.
Any time the police get a bit of power, they exploit that to the maximum.
Hoadie

"In THEORY your right. If the programme is run the way it is proposed...but its not"
That is the big problem here in the U.S. The anti gun types are twisting & "repurposing" words & anything else they can to get ban outright ban.