Give it time. June 2015 sounds about right going by the latest polls. Bear in mind that Labour's "punish non-Labour voters" £200 increase and ACPO's fag-packet £200 increase were very suspiciously similar when they were first floated, a month or two apart, in the middle of last year.Dannywayoflife wrote:What's to say in the next few years they won't!?
The open-ended price rises, combined with the Enabling Act provisions allowing ACPO/CoP and the Home Office to rewrite the Firearms Guidance at will, are going to kill us off entirely within 10-15 years. Who needs primary legislation to force us to pay for ruinously expensive GPs' reports ordered on the subjective whims of licensing department staff when a stroke of a Whitehall bureaucrat's pen can write it into the next edition of the Guidance, which needs no public (or private) consultation to become "law"?
The police are actively taking measures to bump up the cost of processing (random, no-notice, no-reason spot checks conducted to a planned timetable of 12 per week, if rumours of what Hants are up to are correct) and they won't stop just because revenues are falling. This is a dark time for shooting.