The other Thread has been closed for being political which is fair enough but there are still things to discuss that have nothing to do with politics and every thing to do with shooting, we all need to know what is going on and to find a way to represent ourselves to the home office should it be necessary, so guys don’t point fingers and slag off the government, changes are coming that’s for sure lets try and stay focused so we can ultimately have our say.

Saying that, just to stir things up a bit, I put in for a variation to my licence on the 8th April and I’m still waiting for it to come back!

The firearms licensing departments which ever county it is are grossly under resourced and in the current economic climate will probably get worse as inevitable cuts hit the police force.

what ever new legislation comes out of this disaster that really needs to change. They can not enforce or keep up to date with the current reg’s let alone new ones. This may mean we pay more for our ticket’s?, should we be volunteering to do so? May be that’s one for another thread

Any how

When the Fire arms advisor came to visit me about the said variation he told me that Norfolk (county in Englandicon) and Suffolk firearms licensing departments were going to be amalgamated in to one unit and that staff would be lost, this would mean that when a renewal came up they WOULD NOT visit the holder as they do now automatically but only if they had concerns about that individual, other wise it would be a percentage as with most audits.

I could not believe my ears!

I asked politely as I could( I do want to keep my licence after all) what on earth they were thinking and the reply was that because there had not been a Hungerford type incident for such a long time the men at the top felt the risk was low.

I just had to point out that there hadn’t been an ‘Incident’ for so long probably because the police had been visiting every individual on as their licence came up for renewal and they were spotting the potential Loon’s.

Then bugger me two weeks later this happens, bet they are having a rethink on that one!
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