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Dear All,
I've been watching this thread with interest, primarily
because my FAC renewal is now a number of months away
and I have started to make the preparations.
My view, in full, is as follows.
After the shambles in North Wales a couple of years back
I have taken to ensuring that I do not leave the house
without the required documentation.
If I don't have my FAC, explosives licence, etc. renewed
before expiry, I am committing an offence. Being
convicted of such an offence would destroy my livelihood,
which is something I can't risk.
Whenever my house is un-occupied, even if only for a
weekend, all of my firearms go into storage. The weekly
cost per firearm may be small, it soon mounts up when
you've got 12 of them. My friendly dealer, will only
take them into storage on evidence that I'm entitled
to be in possession. After all he has to protect his
position and will not accept a photocopy of my FAC. If
my FAC is away being renewed, I can't provide this
evidence and to cover himself, David will refuse to store
them.
This then means that I'm off to the local police station
asking them to take firearms, ammo and black powder into
storage. I don't think so! When I tried to surrender
some hollow-point bullets on the Saturday morning before
before the deadline they were refused. I left the police
station with a dilema, I still believe they should have
taken responsibility for.
In the mean time I have a raft of competitions for which
I need to complete cards, both as an individual and as a
team member. I compete to ensure that I have good cause
for owning the firearms, because I doubt that target
practice on its own will continue to be good cause.
We are now getting to an intersting scenario. I will
not wish to store my firearms and ammo until my ticket
expires. If I wait that long I won't be able to place
them into storage. Catch 22, or what? I will incur costs,
my team members will be penalised if I can't shoot
the cards, and we will all loose our entry fees.
My plan? Three months before my renewal is due, I shall
have completed my own set of renewal forms. My referees
will be briefed. I shall send a covering letter explaining
that time is of the essence (Rickard's case?) and why,
together with the forms on the day after I receive them
from the police. I shall enclose a copy of the letter
asking for it to be receipted and returned to me. I
will advise them of my intended actions, i.e. arriving
at Police HQ with all of my kit for storage, should my
renewal not be completed on time. I will also advise
them of the likely costs associated should they fail to
perform in the time period THEY HAVE PROVIDED.
It may seem rather drastic to contemplate such actions,
but under the currect regime I feel I have to take such
measures.
Anyone what to buy an interesting Management Consultancy
so that I can retire to France? I've had enough of the
UK. 8-(
Regards,
George
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The licensing system in France is no more efficient!
In New York City some years ago shooters got so hacked
off with the amount of time it took to renew pistol
permits that they convinced the legislature to put
a time limit in the law of 180 days.
Our system of licensing really gets up my nose because
you have to have your FAC to be able to buy guns or
ammo, and the police have it for so much time because
of renewals and variations that I always find myself
running out of ammo.
In most countries you have aseperate license and
authorisations to acquire, so if you apply for a
new authority to acquire you don't have to send
your license in to be amended.
And why do the police need your FAC while it is
being renewed anyway? Why not simply send the
new one and ask for the old one back when it expires?
When they wrote the guidance they were worried about
fraud, but it takes so long to renew them now that
is a minor concern by comparison.
Steve.
Cybershooters website: http://www.cybershooters.org
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