I'm still not sure exactly what this whole affair is about.
Yes there has been a breach of rules. Etc etc.
But apart from that there has been a complete disregard in regard to speaking out and to the press etc. Nightingale seems to have been punished from within by becoming a PNG as far as his colleagues are concerned (I have no connection here, but am reading between the lines).
The whole story is bizarre, and many of us here (as per above) have lived with our weapons on a constant basis. I do wonder what our Atlantic cousins make of a story of a soldier being prosecuted for having a weapon/ammo at home, or how this looks to Northern European soldiers who take it for granted that they keep weapons and ammo at home.