Martin Allan, aged 36, has been handed a two-year conditional discharge and ordered to pay costs after admitting failing to ensure that two of his legally-owned guns were securely stored. Police officers carrying out a weapons’ check at Allan’s home in Dufton, Cumbria found only three of his five firearms in his secure gun store. A loaded rifle was subsequently discovered in a locked shed, while a second gun was found in Allan’s farmhouse property. Allan claimed to have recently used both guns during his work: one to humanely destroy injured livestock and, the other, for pest control.