Government are voting the law in favor of the votes (most of the time). Trust me, seen from a very different country and mentality, beach hunting is the US in the middle of the afternoon during rush hour won't be tolerate in an other country.
To give you an exemple, metal detects in August à 3PM on the beach, even if you are far from everyone : you will find your car scratched by the everyone.
I think Law in a way can be seen like a contract between to companies doing business : when you start to re-read the contract... business is dead :-(
Hope for you guys you will save your hobby
take it the other way round : there is no need to have law if people respects each other. If people don't then ... you create a law.
In Europe, the law is not seen like it is in the US, it's not ON/OFF in a certain way, i know it's hard to understand for US citizen but we are used to "self discipline" and what can be admitted by the surrounding and what cannot, even if you have the law on your side. At the end of the day you need to live and be accepted by your surrounding EVEN if you think you have the law with you.
Where I live, metal detection is prohibited (not the metal detection, but the finds with the usage of a metal detector are illigal...). I detect a lot without any problem, because I respect people sensibility and feelings. I have been cought numerous time by Police without any futher action.
It this case, Law is the tool to prevent mass metal detecting bothering everyone. If you bother no one, then the law is not applied!
PS: sorry for my english, it's not my everyday language
take it the other way round : there is no need to have law if people respects each other. If people don't then ... you create a law.
In Europe, the law is not seen like it is in the US, it's not ON/OFF in a certain way, i know it's hard to understand for US citizen but we are used to "self discipline" and what can be admitted by the surrounding and what cannot, even if you have the law on your side. At the end of the day you need to live and be accepted by your surrounding EVEN if you think you have the law with you.
Where I live, metal detection is prohibited (not the metal detection, but the finds with the usage of a metal detector are illigal...). I detect a lot without any problem, because I respect people sensibility and feelings. I have been cought numerous time by Police without any futher action.
It this case, Law is the tool to prevent mass metal detecting bothering everyone. If you bother no one, then the law is not applied!
PS: sorry for my english, it's not my everyday language
it is forbidden to hunt on historical sites, and historical sites are not published....
Each time you build a new house, 98% of the time you have the visit of archeologist blocking your construction for at least 6 month because you always have something old under your foot.
Even if you find something on a place witch is not an historical site, by the magic of bureaucraty the site has been declared Historical site the day before your find: you go to jail, advertise your face on the news and they keep the finds.
It has nothing to do with taxes, its a mixture of jalousy and nation vs individual (socialism). So the coins should remain in the soil and detroyed by the pollution, constructions and farmers rather then beiing saved by detectorists.
So everyone is metal detecting and keep everything for them and just shut up. UK is the only example where the state have tried to take advantage of Metal Detection hobby.
