Thread: Firearms Licence Renewal

Although the "rules" seem to change every 10 years or so!!! Here's what I have experienced with our local Arms Office.

A person comes into the shop who has either left his/her licence at home or is waiting for renewal or issue of their first licence & wants to buy a cannon or ammo.
The current procedure as I understand it ( haven't had to do it for a while ) is: I phone the arms office & hope that someone is actually there!!! IF the phone is answered I give the AO people the customer's details, AO check their database & give me the customer's licence # & expiry date over the phone if everything is cosher.

That is what I call " being helpful" & should apply until the person's licence is actually in their hot little hand.

It would appear that this doesn't happen in all AO offices????

Like the old mail order system, it would have been foolproof IF there was a standardised procedure right throughout the country.

National Police Force in name only?????