A torch mount is restricted item?

Also add a reference about the recent court case about importing gun parts and the like.

As posted on another thread but with simmilar topic here.

Have fun contacting them tho.They are the most Kafkaesque and user unfriendly operation to get hold of when you need them,next to An Post.

Phone numbers that don't recive incoming calls[ ZV plate vechicle registration Rosslare].Emails that end up in dead email accounts[Athlone] Roving switchboard,so that means if you ring their main switchboard,you could be connected to someone in Foynes,Co Limerick when your problem is in Dublin airport.Ring them back 5 mins later and you are talking to someone in Rosslare!

I had a run of them last year importing a rifle from France,and the majority of this stems from Customs officals being not Aufe with the firearms laws,and being put in a position by the Courier companies or An Post to deal with"suspicious packages of possible contraband or import duties due".Compounded now of course with Brexit and it being firearms related.

Breaking news: https://extra.ie/2025/05/13/news/irish-news/pistol-gardas-child

Dont know whether to feel sad or embarrassed for the genuine aGS who have to carry firearms in their course of their duties,and are being literally F..$5D over by their superiors with nonsense like this,like not even having the decency to aquire proper holsters for their side arms and some bright spark,or someone on the sly went off to some Fukstick whom someone knew,might literally cobble up a few aul holsters and make a good few quid on it too Be grand!

Now an officer is dead courtsey of known faulty issued police equipment,not to mind,FIK literally NO weapons retention training!Be a massive lawsuit by the next-of-kin were this a US Police Dept.But here it will be the usual Govt response,Deny,Delay,Destroy and deep pocket the whistleblower out of their claim and job.

The powers that be won't let a tragedy go to waste. Lets see what's shafting of us is proposed at the meeting on the 19th.

Sofar according to the DOJ themselves;this might change of course post Carlow

A talk on the new EU 2025 legislation on importing/exporting firearms to Ireland.

A chat from a psychologist on how to recognise if one of us in the shooting community,might be getting to the point of offing themselves,or ourselves.No doubt post the two land inheritance disputes/ murder / self killings that happened down in Cork 2 or 3 years ago.

Not a bad idea,I'm sure plenty of us know or have been touched by someone who has done themselves in,not in even a gun ownership context and good to know some signs ,but fraught with difficulties in reality if you are or they are a gun owner.

Coincidently,y that EU directive has a mention of tightning up EU wide on psychological/medical aspects in applications. in its short blurb.

Q&A on questions you have sent in to the Dept[and I hope we HAVE been doing such!].

The last thing we would want is getting psychologists involved in fairness , yea maybe for some gun cubs to recognise stuff like that , but sure as shooting wont want them involved in the application process , its bad enough as it is but them Psychologists are on another level of crazy …

I posted the below in the Shooting in Carlow thread:

Imagine if this guy had entered the centre with his illegally obtained G3 automatic rifle, semi-automatic pistol and explosive devices instead of the shotgun he somehow got his hands on.

I think an actual massacre has been narrowly avoided.

BULL!!!He had intent to do harm and even firing in the air is considerd a danger and a chargeable offence.Reckless discharge of a firearm in a public place.Why go to a public place like a shopping centre to kill yourself? Most people go off for a walk in the woods or someplace quiet to end it all. Going to a public place like that was to make a statement or do physical harm to others.He could have ended it to by "death by cop" as there were armed Gardai present and if he had pointed the gun at them would have been perfectly justified in opening fire ,in fear of their lives.

Being callous and utterly selfish here,but thank God he didn't use a handgun ,as we would have a line of politicos , anti gun do gooders,and media whores and senior Gardai demanding a ban on the few miserable ones we have left.Irrespective of caliber.

Messed up is the word alright.Whats the betting this will feature in the DOJ,getting to know you gun nuts chat in a couple of weeks?

Easier maybe,but 1000% riskier,as you have no clue on the dark net,who or what you are dealing with,and it isn't unknown for intl Law enforcement to go fishing with something like this to see what they can catch.I wouldn't say what looks like a newish in grease,full auto G3 plus X amount of ammo is cheap either.Ditto for a 1911 45ACP. so this bunch must have had some money to spend on this lark.About the same as 3 plane tickets to Prauge or Las Vegas and a weekend on the beer after going to one of the full auto ranges and wasting a few hundred quid in ammo,all prefectly legally.