'Reasonably honest': did you tell them you intend to CTB with it. If so, I'm amazed they didn't confiscate the SN; I thought that was the whole purpose of these checks!
I said I bought it for older age- if I came down with a debhilitating illness. I don't want to end up in a nursing home. I've seen what they're like. (Which is true- I would use it to avoid that.) They couldn't really argue with that. They weren't happy leaving it- of course. They did keep saying they could take it and get rid of it for me but I just said- 'I'd rather keep it.' They wanted me to fill in some questionnaire that I thought
could get me in to trouble- so I said I'd rather not but I agreed to be put in touch with a helpline (so they could tick their boxes.) Then, they felt happier leaving. I was lucky though- they were reasonable and not too pushy. Neither was I though- I met them half way. I certainly wished I'd just lied at some points though!
The helpline by the way were
much worse. One lady was nice but then someone else rang back and they were full of guilt trips and veiled threats- 'Think of what it would do to your family.' (That's what I've been thinking about the past 33 years- hence- I'm still stuck here.) '...And of course- there's the matter of mental competency.' I was like- holy shit- there not going to try and section me are they?!! I'd prefer to talk to the police officers any day of the week than whoever that woman was.
A detective also got in touch later but she was really nice. Those IC welfare checks though I think were far more about international police cooperation with Canada to try and pin more charges on Kenneth Law.