The police are urging licenced firearms owners to provide contact details, and reassuring recipients that their request by email is not a scam.
Emails and text messages have been sent to firearms licence holders over the past month, seeking residential and gun storage addresses, as well as contact phone numbers.
Many think it's a scam by people wanting to steal their weapons Ben Strang reports.

Police assure firearms owners emails asking for storage addresses aren't a scam

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