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Petition to simplify the Firearms Act and make the FCP permanent

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  • Registered Users Posts: 14,148 ✭✭✭✭Lemming


    Signed.


  • Registered Users Posts: 40,055 ✭✭✭✭Sparks


    Sluggish climbing at the moment, only up to 215.


  • Registered Users Posts: 14,934 ✭✭✭✭Grizzly 45


    How many do you need before this would be taken seriously?:confused:

    "If you want to keep someone away from your house, Just fire the shotgun through the door."

    Vice President [and former lawyer] Joe Biden Field& Stream Magazine interview Feb 2013 "



  • Registered Users Posts: 40,055 ✭✭✭✭Sparks


    200,000 licences out there Grizz, so you'd like to see a few thousand rather than a few hundred. But an actual hard number probably doesn't exist.


  • Registered Users Posts: 6,576 ✭✭✭garv123


    Sparks wrote: »
    200,000 licences out there Grizz, so you'd like to see a few thousand rather than a few hundred. But an actual hard number probably doesn't exist.

    200k licences out there but how many people own 2,3,4,5 firearms and so on.


    Is there a number for how many people have firearm licences?


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  • Registered Users Posts: 480 ✭✭ssl


    Signed it.


  • Registered Users Posts: 40,055 ✭✭✭✭Sparks


    garv123 wrote: »
    Is there a number for how many people have firearm licences?
    Nope. Been asked for a few times in the Dail, but never been collated. Best guesstimate is that there's around 180-190,000 people (because the bulk of firearms owners don't own two firearms - the largest demographic of firearms in Ireland is the single-barrel baikal behind the farm door).

    Regardless of the accuracy of that guess, 200k is a fairly good number to work with on the back of an envelope because unless every single firearms owner in Ireland has two firearms, we have the right order of magnitude and are close enough that it won't make any really significant difference.


  • Registered Users Posts: 40,055 ✭✭✭✭Sparks


    Says rather a lot really, that the "Stop SOPA Ireland" lads see 30,000 signatures in four days and manage to get a junior minister reeled in before he enacts secondary legislation in a fairly complex area of law as it applies to a very fluid social setting; but the 200,000 or so of our folks can't get more than 0.1% of ourselves to sign off on even having our legislation all written down in one place...


  • Registered Users Posts: 3,072 ✭✭✭cavan shooter


    To get more signatures you might need to take it out of here and get it to a broader audience. What about CAI, IFA, NARGC, IDS,ICPSA, CSI Long range laddies, and all the other men that shoot a firearm as a sport.

    best of luck.


  • Registered Users Posts: 40,055 ✭✭✭✭Sparks


    Send it to the NGBs and you're into committees and red tape and out of the grassroots in a heartbeat. Besides which, we've done this before when the Minister wanted to raise the cost of firearms licences. Which doesn't say great things about us really :(


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 5,108 ✭✭✭pedroeibar1


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  • Registered Users Posts: 40,055 ✭✭✭✭Sparks


    Yeah, not sure what's happening there pedro.


  • Registered Users Posts: 480 ✭✭ssl


    The "Stop SOPA Ireland" petition had a box to tick if you did not wish you signiture to be published. If this was included in this petition I believe there would be more signatures


  • Registered Users Posts: 40,055 ✭✭✭✭Sparks


    Good point ssl, I've contacted the folks who run the website it's on and they've altered it so that now only name and country are shown.


  • Registered Users Posts: 161 ✭✭Fazer6


    Signed!


  • Registered Users Posts: 193 ✭✭cyberblade 918c


    done .... will get the missus to sign tomorrow also:p


  • Registered Users Posts: 40,055 ✭✭✭✭Sparks


    234 now...


  • Registered Users Posts: 40,055 ✭✭✭✭Sparks


    ...246 signatures at the moment. I think at this stage, if we get it to a nice round number, we'll send it off instead of waiting for a large percentage of the 400,000-odd people this affects...


  • Registered Users Posts: 1,621 ✭✭✭Jsmurff


    Can't believe I didn't sign this earlier :rolleyes: hang on another bit I'l pass it round :D


  • Registered Users Posts: 99 ✭✭driftkingire


    done


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  • Registered Users Posts: 395 ✭✭Ziggieire


    done


  • Registered Users Posts: 245 ✭✭Migworks


    Airsofter and added!


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 133 ✭✭Sean Mullen


    done done and done :D:D:D


  • Registered Users Posts: 493 ✭✭pheasntstalker


    done sorry im late only spotted this today


  • Registered Users Posts: 392 ✭✭browning 12 bore


    done and done and pass it on as much as people as you can


  • Registered Users Posts: 1,276 ✭✭✭slayerking


    Only spotted this there now, signed...


  • Registered Users Posts: 369 ✭✭Cavan duck buster


    Done, lets hope we get it look after :)


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 268 ✭✭owelfisherman


    signed


  • Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 28,420 Mod ✭✭✭✭Cass


    Tens of thousands of firearms owners. Surely we can do better?

    The more signatures the stronger the petition.
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  • Registered Users Posts: 94 ✭✭hollow point


    signed


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