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  • 26-04-2010 5:05pm
    #1
    fiattech
    Closed Accounts Posts: 60 ✭✭


    Hi after a long long time i finally got my grant letter for my .22 pistol so i will be picking up my browning buckmark as soon as i get my licence back in the post. yyyyeeeeeeeppppppppeeeeeeeeeeeee.


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  • #2
    BELOWaverageIQ
    Closed Accounts Posts: 703 ✭✭✭BELOWaverageIQ


    That's a bloody discrace for an application to take that length of time.
    I hate to tell you but my pistol application was dealt with in under 4 weeks.


  • #3
    sfakiaman
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 737 ✭✭✭sfakiaman


    Congratulations. :D Mine took over a year and a half, I got a year's use out of it and am still waiting for my renewal since September. :mad::mad:


  • #4
    Grizzly 45
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,134 ✭✭✭✭Grizzly 45


    Anyone beat 2.5 years for a grant??That was what I needed for my Glock.:rolleyes:
    Somone please take this title off me!:eek:

    "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 "



  • #5
    fiattech
    Closed Accounts Posts: 60 ✭✭fiattech


    That is bad i thought mine was the longest ever....


  • #6
    guns4fun
    Closed Accounts Posts: 94 ✭✭guns4fun


    they must have been processed under the old system in which the gardai would have dumped your application in a drawer hoping you would give up and go away.
    at least with the new system there is a timeframe in which they have to reply.
    thats probably the one good thing about the new system..
    2 and a halfyears is a disgrace.


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  • #7
    Grizzly 45
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,134 ✭✭✭✭Grizzly 45


    Well, thats not so bad.This will be the THIRD year I have held a deer hunting permit,but no deer rifle!:rolleyes:Ok,I'm partially to blame on this as the rifle I had hoped to buy was too pricy and as the economic situation has gone to pot.I changed for a rifle more suitable for me,the terrain I hunt in and cheaper,but that has fallen under the restricted category now,so

    High ho,high ho,It's off to the District Court we go!The Gardai argue about 1500 PPC all day,and all our Solicitors get much pay.High ho High Ho.:eek::rolleyes:

    "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 "



  • #8
    sfakiaman
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 737 ✭✭✭sfakiaman


    guns4fun wrote: »
    they must have been processed under the old system in which the gardai would have dumped your application in a drawer hoping you would give up and go away.
    at least with the new system there is a timeframe in which they have to reply.
    thats probably the one good thing about the new system..
    2 and a halfyears is a disgrace.

    I don't think thats quite true, if they can't be ar*ed replying within three months you're deemed refused.


  • #9
    fish slapped
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,795 ✭✭✭fish slapped


    sfakiaman wrote: »
    I don't think thats quite true, if they can't be ar*ed replying within three months you're deemed refused.

    A couple of years ago I had a F.O. put my application in his drawer. I called back after about 10 weeks to see if there was any word, he opened his drawer glanced down and said " Nope its still there". I left his for another 6 weeks and called back in and asked was there any movement? to which he opened the drawer and said " No its still there!" .

    At this point I rang and made an appointment to see the super. When I explained to him what had happened, he rang the Sergent and asked him to him to take it off that ******* eejit and get it sorted! I sat there with me mouth open.

    I got the licence two days later.


  • #10
    fiattech
    Closed Accounts Posts: 60 ✭✭fiattech


    guns4fun wrote: »
    they must have been processed under the old system in which the gardai would have dumped your application in a drawer hoping you would give up and go away.
    at least with the new system there is a timeframe in which they have to reply.
    thats probably the one good thing about the new system..
    2 and a halfyears is a disgrace.


    I put in my application on 01/01/2009 on the old system and the sargent through it back at me and told me all pistols are banned i asked him to put it through the system anyway. When the new FCA1 became live on the garda web site i think about the 4th or 6th of aug 09 i put in a new application and nine F*****G months later i got it.


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