Thread: Firearm licencing

My daughter was interviewed and told it was all good... expect the license to arrive in 6 weeks. That was 10 weeks ago. I'm starting to lose my sense of humour.

Thing is, these new 5 year licenses are going to cause a significant hiccup at the next round of renewals. The police are clearly struggling to get through a ridiculous backlog of both new issues and renewals and it doesn't sound like its going to get any easier for them inside the next 2 years. So what do you think is going to happen when these half-life licenses start to expire? Suddenly they have just doubled their workload at a time when they're not coping to begin with, only getting half the required numbers out the door. Come 2026 they're going to be four times busier than they are now... not even giving consideration to those of us who start the process 12 months in advance in anticipation of the ridiculous lead times.

Dropping the license to 5 years is typical bureaucratic shortsightedness. They just have no clue and no forethought.