The joint owner of a gun shop and firing range which was hit by a Swansea Council enforcement notice said he was aiming to resolve any planning issues.
Steven Lockwood, of A1 Guns, Pontarddulais, is submitting a change of use application to the council along with plans for an extension to accommodate a new workshop and 50m indoor firing range.
The council's enforcement notice said the company had changed the use of an outbuilding into a gun sales and repair workshop without planning permission.
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The notice also said A1 Guns was, without planning consent, using another building as an indoor firing range and land as an outdoor range.
The notice required the business to stop this activity or submit a planning application to address it.
"They (the council) have got it down as a smallholding, but the gun shop has been here for the last 15 years and the firing ranges have been here all the time," said Mr Lockwood. He said the council had approved new toilets the business installed around five years ago.
A1 Guns, he said, worked with gun clubs in the region, a couple of local schools and sometimes the police.
Mr Lockwood said it stocked many guns - and could order in many more - and offered a restoring, deactivating and destruction service.
He added: "We want to go into (gun) parts."
The former builder said firearms had been a hobby for years before he teamed up formally with the original owner, Ken Haynes, who remains a partner in the business.
Mr Lockwood said the business had three employees but was planning to add two more if its planning application was given the go-ahead.
Four months ago a 16-year apprentice was taken on, with Home Office approval.
Mr Lockwood said the company, which has a big Facebook following, was a registered firearms dealer and fully licensed.
He said: "The minute you drive in, you are on 'Candid Camera'. There are very tight restrictions."
Mr Lockwood, who was repairing a German Mauser when he spoke to the Local Democracy Reporting Service, said the business dealt with a lot of guns which were brought in by relatives after a loved one had died.
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An example was a 44-40 rifle bought by a cowboy movie fan while on holiday in Europe and hung on his wall at home.
Mr Lockwood said he wanted to move from his home in Swansea to a new flat above the planned workshop. He added that Covid lockdowns had impacted the Heol Ddwr business heavily, notwithstanding some financial support from the council.
"We cashed in a couple of pensions to keep it going," he said.
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