It was a shotgun, BTW, not a rifle. Licence conditions are less strict I think.
It's unlikely he could afford to shoot game, so he probably used it to shoot clays (which were called 'clay pigeons' when I was a child). Is this what is called 'skeet in the US? My children had a game called that on the Atari ST.
The police would certainly not have returned it if they had known more about him. Hindsight...
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