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    #32
    Grizzly 45
    Registered Users Posts: 14,950 ✭✭✭✭Grizzly 45


    Nekarsulm wrote: »
    It's a catch-all phrase that means "we are calling the shots here".

    In a follow up phone call to the Guard who deals with licences, I was actually told that a moderator ( they called it a Silencer) was contrary to public safety because someone could be walking along the other side of the hedge and not realise shooting was taking place ......

    Too much TV being watched.....

    You couldn't pin them down as having implemented a blanket ban either, because people who have had moderators on the licences from Before the Superintendent took charge, still get the required licence.

    OK, from the letter, it says you don't meet the "current required criteria"...Which implies that if you fulfil these criteria you will be granted a silencer extension. So next question to the Super should be, what exactly are the current criteria in the firearms law to grant this extension? Act, paragraph and section please, and then what is his personal criteria to issue such in his district, seeing that he has taken it upon himself to grandfather already issued silencer extensions, and refuse new applications?

    As said, its a tube, that somehow makes you more dangerous somehow, but you are perfectly entitled to have the boomstick and ammo no problem and are not dangerous at all.BUT it[the silencer] is treated as a separate firearm in itself. So refusing you a silencer is technically refusing you a firearm license under the law as written.

    Also, I would nip into your local court office and put in an application for a hearing on this. You can do it yourself, you can always withdraw it at any time if you come to an agreement. [Will save 150 euros off your solicitors bill too]
    AND it might just call his bluff as well! It certainly did down here in Limerick, where one lad got peed off with the meddling about in issuing his license.
    He went to the DC clerks office and filed for a hearing on this matter.
    Within the DAY, the chief's secretary was on the phone to him apologising for "the delay and misunderstanding and clerical error."

    And if you want to go the whole hog on this.PM me .;)
    Grizzly

    "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 "



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    #33
    Zxthinger
    Registered Users Posts: 1,113 ✭✭✭Zxthinger


    Not to be avoiding the OP but there are some rifles that just can't be fired without either a silencer or ear defenders.
    It's simple, wear your ear defenders and you won't need a silencer or a moderator but you won't hear the car door opening in the distance, or cattle in the next field or children playing in the distance. Wear ear protection as a substitution for a silencer will leave you devoid of one-off your most important senses..
    you can't just don ear defenders when a prey species presents itself.


    Try shooting a 220swift with no ear defenders and no silencers. You won't be long shooting in that area before you get the sly comments and the stink eye off the local farmer.


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