Gun club membership

laurie1

Hi guys can anyone tell me what is happening with gun club membership this year, am i correct in saying that the gardai want to know who has not payed membership by July 31st 2016 . can anyone tell me why and where this has come from

Regards
Laurie1

BattleCorp

laurie1 wrote: »

Hi guys can anyone tell me what is happening with gun club membership this year, am i correct in saying that the gardai want to know who has not payed membership by July 31st 2016 . can anyone tell me why and where this has come from

Regards
Laurie1

I don't know of any such regulation, that sounds like scaremongering to me, or maybe a club putting pressure on members to pay up early. If it is true, it could be to see if members are using their firearms for the purpose for which they were granted.

For example, if I am licenced to have a handgun for target shooting, then I must be a member of a range as that's the only place I can legally go target shooting with the handgun. If I let my membership to the range lapse, then officially I would no longer be doing target shooting so therefore I would have no grounds to have the handgun.

Maybe what you are talking about could be somewhat similar to the example I gave above.

Rimfire Shooter

laurie1 wrote: »

Hi guys can anyone tell me what is happening with gun club membership this year, am i correct in saying that the gardai want to know who has not payed membership by July 31st 2016 . can anyone tell me why and where this has come from

Regards
Laurie1

Hopefully this will be happening nationwide. Too many cute f**kers abusing club memberships to get guns !

cavan shooter

BattleCorp wrote:

For example, if I am licenced to have a handgun for target shooting, then I must be a member of a range as that's the only place I can legally go target shooting with the handgun. If I let my membership to the range lapse, then officially I would no longer be doing target shooting so therefore I would have no grounds to have the handgun.

Every year our club sends a copy to the local Gardai and this year I forgot to send in a copy of my membership card with a licence that was due and got a quick polite call asking if I was still in the Club.

FISMA.

laurie1 wrote: »

Hi guys ... Regards Laurie1

Sorry to say that I have no idea Laurie1!

Welcome, however, and thanks for making this forum home to your first thread!

ace86

laurie1 wrote: »

Hi guys can anyone tell me what is happening with gun club membership this year, am i correct in saying that the gardai want to know who has not payed membership by July 31st 2016 . can anyone tell me why and where this has come from

Regards
Laurie1

I'm thinking alot of guys used a gun club as a reason for needing a firearm and the gardai never questioned or checked it to be honest but maybe they got caught so to speak or there were incidents in relation to firearms and started to do back ground checks on everyone which is no harm. there's no shortage of chancers these days.

barnaman

Last 2 years seemd to be checking. Issues in my area with lads trespassing etc few years ago. Had licences as gun club members but had not been members for 20 years! Local gun club chairman sorted it by supplying members list to guards. As ace says seems in some areas guards not check but took all at face value.

LB6

AFAIK, the clubs are also required to give attendance records for members to the Gardai also, to prove that it's not just a membership for gun owernship and that they're actually using the facilities.