Haven't received licence renewal form

Tea drinker

My renewal date is due end this month, in the interim have now stored the firearm at the club.
Who should I chase first, local super or the FO (Dun Laoghaire is my FO)

Cheers

alanmc

The FO should be able to check Pulse. If you haven't received the FCR yet, then it's an admin issue. Not much to do with the Super.

cookimonster

Mine only arrived to day, date on the address block was the 22 Dec 2018. Previously others didn't arrive until a 6 weeks after the date shown on the FCR.
But this late into it I'd be contacting the local FO.

Tea drinker

They ordered a reprint on it now, so if I get it early next week should be ok.

German pointer

Mine is due end of this month and didn't arrive either obviously an admin issue.

meathstevie

Am I mistaken but isn't this just a prepopulated "convenience" form. Can a blank renewal form not be downloaded ?

Captainaxiom

meathstevie wrote: »

Am I mistaken but isn't this just a prepopulated "convenience" form. Can a blank renewal form not be downloaded ?

There’ll be some on here who’ll tell you the FCR form has to be used but both myself and a number of lads in the club have used the FCA1 form numerous times without any issue.

alanmc

https://www.garda.ie/en/About-Us/Online-Services/Firearms-Licensing/Firearm-Certificate-Renewals.html

Please note that only the PRE POPULATED FCR form will be acceptable to An Garda Síochána when renewing a firearm certificate and each application for renewal must be accurately completed prior to returning the FCR to the Garda Station. Finally, the Firearms Renewal Form (FCR) is only used for renewals of firearm certificates. Any new application or substitution for a firearm certificate shall continue to be made on the FCA1 application form.

Captainaxiom

alanmc wrote: »

https://www.garda.ie/en/About-Us/Online-Services/Firearms-Licensing/Firearm-Certificate-Renewals.html

Doesn’t change the fact that they still accept the FCA1 for renewals.
A form is better than no form

alanmc

Captainaxiom wrote: »

Doesn’t change the fact that they still accept the FCA1 for renewals.
A form is better than no form

I would hazzard a guess that only some stations would let you do this.

Captainaxiom

alanmc wrote: »

I would hazzard a guess that only some stations would let you do this.

Possibly true but I’d rather submit the fca1 form if my licence was due to expire rather than sit on my hands while it expired

Tea drinker

Captainaxiom wrote: »

Possibly true but I’d rather submit the fca1 form if my licence was due to expire rather than sit on my hands while it expired

That's my understanding, if no form comes go and do FCA, no pre completed form arrived so did this.

crosshair1

Bringing this back up to see if any others are still affected?

i didnt receive a prepopulated form,
Requested reprint (done while in the station) never came either
Filled in fca1 with all info & highlighted renewal - f/o filled his part in while i was there.
3 weeks on still nothing.

Previously 2 licence renewals submitted in October last were turned around in a week.

Tea drinker

crosshair1 wrote: »

Bringing this back up to see if any others are still affected?

i didnt receive a prepopulated form,
Requested reprint (done while in the station) never came either
Filled in fca1 with all info & highlighted renewal - f/o filled his part in while i was there.
3 weeks on still nothing.

Previously 2 licence renewals submitted in October last were turned around in a week.

The same story for me, but did receive pre-populated form 2 weeks after reprint issued
No licence....... twiddling me thumbs

alanmc

Renewal just before Christmas went pretty smooth for me. It was over the holidays, so it wasn't super fast.

I'm having a tough time with a full application though. Finally got to talk to the FO this evening and after 10 weeks, it hasn't even been submitted to the Supers office yet.

Getting perilously close to the 3 month mark. I'm a little worried, but the FO assured me he'd get it done.

crosshair1

Reprint form arrived today, filled it in and just back from handing it in
We'll see how long this goes on...

Tea drinker

my saga still rolls on, though I've been given assurances it's just backlog

crosshair1

Theres definitely a hold up somewhere in the system, my licence grant letter arrived about 2 weeks ago was paid immediately, took about 10 days to receive the actual licence.
From here on i'll be looking for reprints if it goes to 2 months of renewal without the pre-populated form arriving.

jb88

An efficient Garda station likes to get their money in early, I got renewals last week for licences due to expire in June.

clivej

Renewal letter for payment for a restricted SA SG license came today, now paid. But also in another letter was all the conditions that were made when the license was issued.
That's a first!