Is he now?
Firearms... Enquiry... Officer...
Oh!.... Yes!.... I see... you think that means
his job is to answer "
enquiries" put to him by license holders and prospective license holders.... and here's me thinking that his actual job was to
make the enquiries required, in observation of a licensing authority's legal obligations, in order to satisfy themselves that applicants are "fit and proper" people with "good reason" to possess firearms, prior said Firearms Licensing Office issuing the certificates, which they are
obliged to issue if the applicant is a "fit and proper" person with "good reason" to possess.
Darn it!... silly me.
If it was me... and I know this is just a crazeee notion... but... if it was me, I would ask for what I wanted, providing good reason, and filling it all out on the form (F.101) and then just let them get on with doing the job I thought they got paid to do. I've actually always found this approach to work well. Mibbee I've just been lucky, of course.