how long for rifle licence

Deer Hunter DL

how long would i expect to wait on a licence for a .22lr i am waiting about 2 weeks at the minute

meathstevie

Maybe the same again ? All depends on the local Garda administration and workload really.

scuttlebutt

12 weeks for myself , but know of some people waiting up to a year. Depends on the Garda District but I already held a Shotgun so that may have speeded it up

bitemybanger

Think it was around 8 weeks for me, might have been quicker for me as i already had a shotgun licence

Deer Hunter DL

i alredy hold a shot gun licence too so hopefully it will come a bit quicker

pestshooter7

4 months for 22lr!
6 weeks for 223!
2 months for 12g!

It wasn't me!

Just over seven weeks for mine.

riflehunter77

12 weeks for my .22lr
3 weeks for my shotgun
5 minutes for my .17 HMR :D, just got the cert amended from .22lr to .17HMR..

clivej

8 weeks so far for a shotgun license and still no sign of it coming. I was told it went up to Dublin, for whaterver they do up there with it, 3 weeks ago. I'll call in to the FO tomorrow and see if there's any move on it. Applied for a 22lr 3 weeks ago so hopefully that will come quicker.
Could be some fun in the summer when I apply for a 308 license, I expect to be waiting 12-24 months for that one to come.:)

It wasn't me!

I'd suggest poking them again, to be honest, can't be more than a few days to Dublin, then two days in the Phoenix Park, and then a few days back to you. Doesn't sound level to me. If it went to Dublin three weeks ago, you should be holding it now.

RedRag

I waited 5 weeks for 22lr. picked it up 2 weeks ago, Love it.

triggerpull

8 weeks for .22 and 8 weeks for shottie. took another 3 weeks to find the cop shop open with a garda in it ????
collected it with out paying the fee and got a call 2 weeks later to let me know my licence was in for collection. he was quite shocked when i told him i had it.:):D:D:D

thehair

i went down to fao i kissed his ass look at my post.
from that time to rifle in hand ooo yes 2 very long weeks
i live in mayo:D:D:cool:

coder600

You could wait the full 3 months depending on your personal circumstances
By the way the new firearms licensing code
is now up on the irshdeersociety website
irishdeersociety.ie
can be read on-line or downloaded - very useful too you

fiestaman

5 months for mine. kilkenny area

cz

the guy in charge of firearms told me 1 month

but i had problems getting some permissions so it took me 3 months- if i'd had those perm i would have got it in 1 month

Our man in Havana

10 weeks for the .22lr, 8 weeks for the 12g.

Is the 3 month max waiting time implemented yet?

meathstevie

triggerpull wrote: »

8 weeks for .22 and 8 weeks for shottie. took another 3 weeks to find the cop shop open with a garda in it ????
collected it with out paying the fee and got a call 2 weeks later to let me know my licence was in for collection. he was quite shocked when i told him i had it.:):D:D:D

I'm in the same town as Triggerpull. Getting a licence approved for anything but machine guns and jet fighters is not the problem. It's finding the guy to hand you the licence that's the problem. . In fairness to our local members of the force : when they're in the station they're a sound enough bunch and the town has grown quite a bit over a the last while and they're not really an overstaffed station. The bad news is that I heard the current Super is retiring soon...

It wasn't me!

Bond-007 wrote: »

10 weeks for the .22lr, 8 weeks for the 12g.

Is the 3 month max waiting time implemented yet?

As far as I know, that's in force, if not in action.

kowloon

Does the 3 month max wait actually work?
Might you get refused out of spite?

Our man in Havana

Then it is off to the District Court with you to appeal.

Deer Hunter DL

got it at last about a month and a half

thehair

Deer Hunter DL wrote: »

got it at last about a month and a half

great news deer hunter dl enjoy link
http://www.nargc.ie/Upload/Docs/NARGC-FIREARMS-SAFETY-MANUAL.pdf

digsey

i was a day under 3 weeks waiting for my .22mag (cork).cousin was waiting 2 months for 12g. both first licenses.

patrickdt10

clivej wrote: »

Could be some fun in the summer when I apply for a 308 license, I expect to be waiting 12-24 months for that one to come.:)

Did you know that there are regulations in place that state the maximum time for the gaurds to process a license is three months.