Thread: New police online licence process.

Originally Posted by Wildman

Just went through it today. Was actually really easy and bloody quick. Quicker and more efficient than the old way
I just took the completed form into the cop shop and a few hours later the seller had an email from the police confirming I'm a good bugger...

Pleasantly surprised.

Yes,sounds fast. Sadly my experience went more like this.

Walks to counter,hands form to desk jockey.
Can I see your licence?
WHY ?
we need to see you have one.
I hold it up so it can be read.
Its expired ! and tries to take it.
I hold it back out of reach and explain WHY its expired etc (I went for my new licence last july,and despite ringing every week since xmas,still don't have the damn thing but" its coming within the next week and keep an eye out for it,in the meantime keep your old licence and its valid from the time it expired for ten years".)
Explain all this to the domkopf at the desk who then says its illegal to use an expired firearms licence blah blah.
I laugh,(nervously) and ring the firearms officer whose number I have in my mob and ask him to come rescue me from the front desk guy who is making up laws as he thinks them up.
Get the hell out of there...

still receive rifles a week later so all is well with the world.. till next time .

According to the local shops im not by any means the only one in the same boat. Seems the licences are being hand embossed one by one and hand delivered by a old man on foot.Again, one at a time. Lucky I got in before it expired or id really be waiting a while.

Originally Posted by oneipete

in the meantime keep your old licence and its valid from the time it expired for ten years".).

Ya, na. If your licence has expired. It's expired. Which means it is no longer valid. Your licence is not issued for 20 years.

You may still have a valid licence without having a Licence Card which is current, but under no circumstances is an expired licence valid for another 10 years after it expires.

Originally Posted by oneipete

Explain all this to the domkopf at the desk who then says its illegal to use an expired firearms licence blah blah..

That's because it IS illegal.

Originally Posted by oneipete

I laugh,(nervously) and ring the firearms officer whose number I have in my mob and ask him to come rescue me from the front desk guy who is making up laws as he thinks them up.
Get the hell out out

Your AO appears to be the one "making up laws as he thinks them up."