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£100,000 of legal expenses cover for appeals against firearms licensing decisions will be added to the membership insurance package offered by the UK’s largest shooting organisation, the British Association for Shooting and Conservation (BASC), from the 1st March 2014.

http://basc.org.uk/blog/press-releases/ ... r-members/

Suddenly makes BASC membership look rather worthwhile, especially with licensing departments being their usual consistent/law-abiding selves...

Oh wow... that's a great idea!

Anybody considering joining BASC for their insurance needs their head checked.


I'd say they dropped the ball, by providing poor cover, and charging the most for membership out of all the organisations, but to be fair, they never had the ball.


Just do a internet search, and it will reveal several disgruntled ex-members who were thoroughly disappointed with BASC's back up, and their lack of insurance cover.

Anyway, I wonder where they got the idea of £100k legal cover? It's been provided by SACS for donkeys years.

Here's a link that I will continue to put up when people naively sing the praises of BASC insurance.It's like anything else - do your research before you part with your hard earned money.

http://www.sacs.org.uk/images/sporting_gun_article.pdf

DL. wrote:Anybody considering joining BASC for their insurance needs their head checked.


I'd say they dropped the ball, by providing poor cover, and charging the most for membership out of all the organisations, but to be fair, they never had the ball.


Just do a internet search, and it will reveal several disgruntled ex-members who were thoroughly disappointed with BASC's back up, and their lack of insurance cover.

Anyway, I wonder where they got the idea of £100k legal cover? It's been provided by SACS for donkeys years.

Here's a link that I will continue to put up when people naively sing the praises of BASC insurance.It's like anything else - do your research before you part with your hard earned money.

http://www.sacs.org.uk/images/sporting_gun_article.pdf

I can only speak well of BASC and would not dream of leaving them.

Isn't the salient point here that the BASC are adding specific coverage for legal expenses incurred in contesting a FEO's decision?

I suspect that that is already recovered by other insurances.

I was an individual member of BASC once, it was requirement of a syndicate I was part of. When we needed their support over an issue they basically told us to eff off. Once bitten twice shy in my book.

At present the insurance policy is an extra cost on top of your membership fee.

Edit, Sorry just to clarify, it's the legal expenses part that is currently optional at an extra £20 a year, at present there is no legal cover provided with the standard BASC membership insurance.

However, David Ilsley has posted on the Pigeon Watch forum saying that it will be included in the membership from March 1st 2014 onwards, something he's been trying to get done for a while.

phaedra1106 wrote:At present the insurance policy is an extra cost on top of your membership fee.

Bloody hell!

National bodies, don't get me going.

They only seem to be there for themselves.

Useful addition to the BASC membership package.

But for me, the greatest value of membership is getting good advice in the first instance. They have been extremely helpful to me when I needed them and their advice - as well as knowledge of the particular licensing authority, prevented 'things' from escalating - in a situation not of my making.

But, if all else fails, legal insurance could be very useful and must be welcomed.

I can only add that I too have had good helpful advice from BASC legal dept.

David