radio 2 next topic! £200 FAC cost

[phaedra1106]

No, you now use the same form to apply for either an SGC or FAC (or both for a coterminous application).

[Gaz]

After this topic was raised I wrote to Norman Baker/Home Office and this was the reply:

<snip>
In your e-mail you suggest having a single certificate for firearm and shotguns. As a certificate holder you will be interested to know that a single application form for firearm and shotgun certificates was introduced on 1 December 2013 and is available to download via police and shooting organisation websites.

<snip>
You also suggest in your e-mail that all section 1 firearms be re-categorised to section 2. The UK Government has always made it clear that controls on firearms should be targeted fairly and proportionately whilst striking a balance between securing public safety without bearing down unnecessarily on legitimate users. I can confirm that there are no plans to re-categorise the status of any weapons within the Firearms Act.

Make of it what you may...

Reading this I wonder if plans are to move S2 to S1?

Um. Did you miss the bit in bold?

[TattooedGun]

After this topic was raised I wrote to Norman Baker/Home Office and this was the reply:

<snip>
In your e-mail you suggest having a single certificate for firearm and shotguns. As a certificate holder you will be interested to know that a single application form for firearm and shotgun certificates was introduced on 1 December 2013 and is available to download via police and shooting organisation websites.

<snip>
You also suggest in your e-mail that all section 1 firearms be re-categorised to section 2. The UK Government has always made it clear that controls on firearms should be targeted fairly and proportionately whilst striking a balance between securing public safety without bearing down unnecessarily on legitimate users. I can confirm that there are no plans to re-categorise the status of any weapons within the Firearms Act.

Make of it what you may...

Reading this I wonder if plans are to move S2 to S1?

Why would you wonder that...?

[zanes]

Um. Did you miss the bit in bold?

I read it. I didn't trust it*.




*May have actually misread that bit in a hurry

[greenshoots]

Thin end of a dangerous wedge, oomans. We agree with the running man and the fat rat: we pay for policing through taxation and do not benefit as individual shooters from the licence, hence it should scrapped. If we buy a fishing licence, the waterways are maintained for us. If we buy a TV Licence we are provided with entertainment (reportedly). The police provide nothing of benefit to us for the cost of our licence.

i must be getting old i actually agree with badger

greenshoots

[Sandgroper]

Thin end of a dangerous wedge, oomans. We agree with the running man and the fat rat: we pay for policing through taxation and do not benefit as individual shooters from the licence, hence it should scrapped. If we buy a fishing licence, the waterways are maintained for us. If we buy a TV Licence we are provided with entertainment (reportedly). The police provide nothing of benefit to us for the cost of our licence.

i must be getting old i actually agree with badger

greenshoots

Have either of you said this to the powers that be?

[Enfield Enthusiast]

The BBC has become too, politically -correct, trendy & modern-thinking & these people are biased against our sport, because of it. The BBC of the 60s & 70s were more gun-tolerant. Same with old-school Labour supporters & politicians. Brian Clough, Harold Wilson, Tommy Docherty, Andy Grey, a certain Scottish Labour MP (Cant remember his name), etc all tolerated firearms to a certain degree.
Docherty was posing with a semi-automatic shotgun in a gotcha pose, in the 70s, whilst holding his colleague up at gun-point for a laugh. Nowdays the media would moan at him & demand he be sacked. This unnamed Labour MP I mentioned earlier, owned .22 pistol, that he carried on him, during his rallying, would you believe. That was a member of the Old Labour & later his rebranded party banned .22 handguns.
I want the old days to come back, even though I wasn't born when half of this was going on.

[Dark Skies]

I'd like to go back to the good old days when you just popped into the Post Office and bought a firearms license. Massive time saving for the police and no cost to them. It's just a piece of paper to give the illusion of safety after all. Won't do doodly to protect them from criminals.

[Enfield Enthusiast]

I'd like to go back to the good old days when you just popped into the Post Office and bought a firearms license. Massive time saving for the police and no cost to them. It's just a piece of paper to give the illusion of safety after all. Won't do doodly to protect them from criminals.

Wow... now that's nearly 50 years ago... pre 68'. Like it & yes how easy was it to get a shotgun then?