Folks the NASRPC will be holding an EGM on the 30th September to deal with this CFSA ban and their approach.

I would strongly urge you to contact your club's NASRPC rep(or the club owner for details of the rep) and inform them of your opposition to the incoming ban, so they can voice your views at the EGM and vote accordingly.

Even if it is not your firearm this time around it may well be the next time, so please take the long view on this as our opponents will most certainly be doing so.

Also consider, if this passes it will be yet another avenue closed to new shooters to join.

No more M1 Garands, M1 Carbines and other classic CFSA rifles. Think about whether you would ever like to own one of these in the future, or even have the option of owning one, because this ban will prevent that happening.

The general scheme has been posted here(head 2 being the pertinent one for CFSA), so the writing is most definitely on the wall and plans are in motion.

Now is the time to get things done, before it is solidified.

And yet it does. I am an Irish shooter, and it represents me.

And other Irish shooters too.

Mandate sorted, next.

And yet by comparison to literally any "militia" name it is completely tame.

Optics are being driven by politicians and media as it is(Irish times recent article, newstalk program, etc), so regardless of if you are a tweed wearing S/S man(or woman) or a lycra clad shooter who migrates up North for pistol & practical comps, as long as you are labelled as a gun owner you are going to be vilified, and lumped in with the criminal elements.

Christ look at other countries where gun control is more advanced, S/As are gone, and what was next on the chopping block? "High powered sniper rifles". IE anything that could be used for hunting, precision target shooting, etc.

The agenda of as few firearms as possible will continue if things like this ban are not fought, and infighting about whether a group has a "mandate" or because of a name "come across as loons with guns" doesn't help matters for shooters. It only serves to keep us divided, which is how the PTB want us.

The email to gun dealers had already been sent out before a TD question was asked, which was how it was found out this was happening, so that point is a non runner, it was already in the works, the TD questions simply confirmed it.

I heard about the rumblings around this FIRST through my local RFD, who, knowing my interests, showed me the email.

Personally I think the height of stupidity is splitting shooters into different camps rather than all uniting. The former makes us all easy pickings, the latter a lot less so.

Honestly I would be bored stiff at the thought of benchrest 22 shooting, but would I do anything I could to prevent it being banned if it was on the table?

You are bloody right I would!

An attack on any segment of the firearms community is an attack on the community as a whole, and more people need to start realizing this, ideally before we are back to S/S & O/U shotguns, the odd deer rifle and .22s.

It isn't like it has never happened, it literally happened back 50 years ago next year!

So it has to represent a certain number of shooters?

A percentage, what?

Come on, this mandate rubbish is crap.

Nope it wasn't, look at the timeline and you will see, AFAIK from posts here, the letter itself, etc, that the question happened after the email to RFDs.

Don't believe me, then go and ask an RFD could they tell you the date on the email.

FUNI represents a section of Irish shooters. Not you evidently, but it still represents some Irish shooters.

The NARGC represent the most and what noise are they making on this?

Absolutely nothing.

They have a mandate(I guess, from your words on mandates and other crap) and are doing zilch, so what good are they in this case?

"The more this is agitated the more likely legislation will come. And no td will vote against it."?????????????????

What planet are you on?

The legislation's general scheme is already on the books, it is no longer a question like in the past 6 years of when or whether it will happen.

It is happening, what do you think all this talk will make it happen sooner?

Come on, the PTB wheels are already in motion and the time to get involved and bloody well do something, FUNI or literally any other org, I couldn't care less about the details, is now!

Contact your own TDs, Senators, go to constituency clinics and push them on this.

Why people are getting so hung up on one org(again one of the two orgs actually making moves to prevent this) and wasting so much time and breath on it when you could be doing something productive it beyond me.

@jb88 Answer my above question, please.

What was done, by whom, where, who was involved and what is the official outcome that we can expect to see?

A straight answer btw, not some non answer, cryptic nonsense either. This topic is to important for massaging anyone's ego. Its also too important for a "wait and see". If you know something, spill it. For no other reason than to put lad's minds at ease, and get the word out there because for the last six years, and especially given the RFD questionaire & publication of the content of the bill, sales will grind to a halt and lads are considering their options for selling their firearms.

If this is truly settled and done (as in dead) either tell us what was done and by whom, or at least link to your own site, blog or whatever (if its the credit you seem to crave, as it will surely come).

The following may seem as a continuation of the post above, but I have split this off as it falls into the cateogry of personal points so should not be confused as a Moderator's actions but that of a poster.

You are refusing to explain the claim you made, but will post in reply to other, non relevant, points. There can only be one of a few reasons for this:

1. You're either making unfounded/false statements
2. Its still only your opinion and you cannot support your claim with actual "proof". 
3. You have exactly what you claim but won't share it.
4. You have exactly what you claim but cannot share it (for whatever reason).
5. The ban is still on, but not in the immediate future.
6. The ban is still on, not in the immediate future, but consideration will be given to those licensed between 2015 and present

Verification for what you claim can be given in the simple form of the names of people spoken to, how it happened, where it happened, and any/all official certification of same. Anything deemed "confidential" can be withheld, but saying people should be genuflecting to you and two other, unnamed, individuals for works you claim to have carried out which has resulted in the complete dismissal of a proposed ban is honestly astounding, but if true worthy of praise. 

Frankly I don't see any reason for hesitation. I for one would most certainly thank you and name you as the architect for saving semi-auto firearms if you simply produce anything that counters the drafted bill, the Miinister's statement from 2015 and the Garda Commissioner's reiteration of the same from 2018. IOW proof of a ban.

My disbelief stems from the fact that major shooting organisations, in the past, could not achieve, with dozens of experienced members in positions that allowed them to speak directly to "power" costing tens of thousands of Euro, the result you claim to have managed with (if I'm reading between the lines corretly) a demonstration to someone(s) in a position of authority which managed to undo the last 6 years.