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There's a chance that I might be moving to Ireland for work (I'll know more in a few weeks) and I'm keen to retain my rifles and carry on shooting over there. However, I am unsure of what the procedures are for both getting a license for a rifle (F class .308) and a 12ga shotgun for clays.

Are there any Irish shooters on the forum that could offer any advice?

User702 wrote:There's a chance that I might be moving to Ireland for work (I'll know more in a few weeks) and I'm keen to retain my rifles and carry on shooting over there. However, I am unsure of what the procedures are for both getting a license for a rifle (F class .308) and a 12ga shotgun for clays.

Are there any Irish shooters on the forum that could offer any advice?

Breacher might know more, but I know each firearm has an individual license that runs for 3 years and that equals in your case two seperate licenses. Also I believe as this may be a wild thing to say that the Gardai are even worse when it comes to inconsistent decisions that most uk forces (some require mags for say a Ruger MK3 pistol to be pinned to 5 rounds due to the Olympic pistol law)/

Otherwise, it's the same process as here, don't know how you'll go moving them in the right way but someone else will chime in soon.

Last time I looked, although some relaxing of attitudes, it's exactly that, purely depending upon the attitude of the AGS Superintendent in whose area you live. And those attitudes can change dramatically with a change in personnel

I thought the licenses only ran for 12 months.

Sim G wrote:Last time I looked, although some relaxing of attitudes, it's exactly that, purely depending upon the attitude of the AGS Superintendent in whose area you live. And those attitudes can change dramatically with a change in personnel

I thought the licenses only ran for 12 months.

They did for a while but I'm sure the 3 years was incorporated in the end along with plastic licenses that don't have the person's picture on .

Apart from a couple of things I reckon Eire is worse than the uk sadly.

Well that's not good. I really don't want to lose the rifle or the shotgun, but if I get the job, I can't think of what else to do with them. I might have to look into the paperwork part of this after I know how the interview when.

Cheers for the advice so far.

User702 wrote:Well that's not good. I really don't want to lose the rifle or the shotgun, but if I get the job, I can't think of what else to do with them. I might have to look into the paperwork part of this after I know how the interview when.

Cheers for the advice so far.

Try Boards.ie's shooting forum, they could tell you if you have a choice of where to go as to where is constantly relatively shooting friendly and not too bady.

I looked into this before as my family live in Ireland d, and wanted to see if I'd be able to bring my shotgun over for visits and to store.

The others have given you correct info as far as I know already, my bit of advice is to get a European firearms pass if you don't have one already, as it makes life a lot easier when transferring the guns and actually applying for a licence.