License Month

kowloon

Anyone know if the licenses are given out after the 31st or is it during the month?

maglite

wait for de letter

Sparks

According to law, the licences expire on July 31 and are renewed and are valid from August 1 onwards.

Hezz700

I had a phone call from my local Sergent earlier today regarding the changing of details on a new shotgun permit and change of details on another. He's calling into my house tonight so i can sign an application and he will collect the licence fee's. Done and dusted no hassle and he says i'll have all my renewed and new permits back by the first week of august.

kowloon

good service

whupass

that's your tax euros at work for ya!

he's probably going to check if you have a safe or if your a mentaly sane enough to have a gun aswell, you know "two birds with one stone" sort of thing

TomBeckett

Hello All
I have not recieved any renewal notice yet! I am in the New Ross District.Now normaly they send them out early in July.
They must not want any money this year:rolleyes:
Has anyone here had the same query?

Rovi

No sign of any from Portlaoise District yet either.

Vegeta

none in my district either

Rew

None for me so far

Keelan

Have not received mine yet ither. Mine usually come the last week in July.
Keelan.

Sparks

None here either.

Samson

No sign of anything here yet either.
Maybe a query call to the depot or the F.O. is in order.

sidneyreilly

Nor me, very suspicious

17HMR

Nothing here either.
Not much of July left !

Terrier

It's always the last few days in July before I recieve the renewal letter
Looking at last year letter now and it was dated July 27th with renewals at the station 6th and 13th of August.

sidneyreilly

They say that there being sent out tomorrow.

17HMR

Terrier wrote:

It's always the last few days in July before I recieve the renewal letter
Looking at last year letter now and it was dated July 27th with renewals at the station 6th and 13th of August.

Gas really....

Does that mean that for about a week or so, every year, there isn't a legally held (civilian) firearm in the country ! How come An Post can get me out a TV licence renewal a month before the old one expires and the Gardai get away with leaving it all until the last minute ?

Sparks

I'd imagine having to also enforce the law would probably be a disadvantage for the gardai over An Post, 17
However, it's a good argument for handing the renewal of licences over to civilian employees within the gardai, if not an external civil agency.

civdef

Related question, when the new licence with a 3 year duration comes in, wuill the fee simply be 3x the existing amount, or will it be proportionally reduced to take account of the reduced administrative burden involved (which is the main justification for the current amount)?

zaitsev

What is the best method of going about the following :-

I want to apply to be joined to an existing FA certificates held by a member of
the family, a shotgun and 22 rifle.
I have joined the local gun club and the Midlands rifle club.

Do I still require 3 farmers signatures for the shotgun and rifle, will be using the rifle both for hunting and range shooting.

The local gun club is shotgun only.

Once you tick the hunting endorsement box on the application does that automatically require the 3 farmers signatures even if you are a member of a gun/rifle club.

maglite

no the shot gun club has land on which you shot or agreement to use land that should satisfy the FO

the club for the .22 will be fine and shoot where ever you have permission they can not define what /where you shoot with a rifle yet

Related question, when the new licence with a 3 year duration comes in, wuill the fee simply be 3x the existing amount, or will it be proportionally reduced to take account of the reduced administrative burden involved (which is the main justification for the current amount)?

it will be 3x this is ireland

Rovi

My licence renewal letters just arrived (approx 9:20am, Tuesday July 25th).
Portlaoise District.

Samson

All mine arrived together this morning as well.

maglite

same aLL HERE

Sparks

Here as well. All three of 'em. I can't remember - did they all come from Garda HQ last year?

civdef

They do.

Rovi

Just back from the station, where a rather frazzled young Guard was at the point of laughing hysterically at the sheer volume of people looking to renew their Firearms Certs.
He is strongly of the opinion that the Minister should have changed to a 'Licence the Shooter' system, rather than the current 'Licence the Gun' nonsense.

Keelan

Got all mine today aswell in the post.
Went to my local garda station to renew them, the FO told me to come back in a week, as the certs were not in yet.:rolleyes:
Keelan.

TomBeckett

Nothing Here Yet!!

thelurcher

Got two of mine yesterday - certs not in station yet though.

allnight_2002

got mine riffle and shotgun cert yesterday

macnas

Got mine yesterday also, two of them had the wrong make on them, 'unknown make' and 'Smith & Wesson'. Serial no. and calibre were correct, thankfully.

Vegeta

only got 2 of my 3

Degsy

Got mine yesterday,minus updated shotgun information.Will the superintedant take a cheque for both or do they require a cheque for each firearm?(or is that a stupid question?)

civdef

One cheque works fine in my experience - have paid cash plenty of times too. It'd be great if Garda stations had Visa machines, but to be honest, the whole idea of using trained Gardai for what is a totally adminstrative procedure, which essentially reduces them to the role of cashier is a waste of Garda resources. Wouldn't it be much more sensible to renew certs at the post office?

Rovi

Degsy wrote:

Got mine yesterday,minus updated shotgun information.Will the superintedant take a cheque for both or do they require a cheque for each firearm?(or is that a stupid question?)

One cheque for the lot.

Degsy

civdef wrote:

One cheque works fine in my experience - have paid cash plenty of times too. It'd be great if Garda stations had Visa machines, but to be honest, the whole idea of using trained Gardai for what is a totally adminstrative procedure, which essentially reduces them to the role of cashier is a waste of Garda resources. Wouldn't it be much more sensible to renew certs at the post office?

The cop on duty last year wouldnt take cash off me,i had to go to the bank and get a bloody draft,adding about an hour to teh whole procedure.
On a slightly unrelated matter,i dont like they way the cert has your adress listed on it,if it was to get lost or nicked,heypresto,somebody knows there's a firearm at such and such an address!

Trojan911

Degsy wrote:

On a slightly unrelated matter,i dont like they way the cert has your adress listed on it,if it was to get lost or nicked,heypresto,somebody knows there's a firearm at such and such an address!

I agree, I got mine last week and thought it unnecessary to have three coming through the door. A crooked postman would cop that there are three firearms at my address and if he had links with dodgy characters could succumb to a brown envelope for passing the info.


TJ911...

cantona

Sorted out my renewal yesterday.Local FO, 5 mins but had to go back as new certs were not stamped.Rang this morning about Euro Pass.Dropped it in to District office at lunch time to get extended and new rifle added.Was rang 20 mins later and told it was ready but was already on way back to work.Collected this evening to find validity extended but no stamp to add rifle on to it.It only needed 2 stamps and 2 signatures, as he had told me to write in the details myself, and they couldn't even get that right.

Any wonder our confidence in our local L.E.O. is so low.

Keelan

All mine renewed.
Keelan.

Clare gunner

Got mine 31st July.Renewed them today,my locals say there has been a major delay in them getting the new lics in the Garda stations in the Munster area.

Degsy

Clare gunner wrote:

Got mine 31st July.Renewed them today,my locals say there has been a major delay in them getting the new lics in the Garda stations in the Munster area.

Handed mine in with the fee on the 29th,havnt heard anything since..