Recent content by Steve Q

Another BASC basher! Everyone wants a solution to de-banking, BASC do what they can, but have not established "The British Shooting Bank", providing FREE banking no doubt! Let me guess....You are not a member because they don't do anything for shooting! Unless you have a solution yourself, let...

14 weeks should put you about half way up the queue, but a call from BASC should confirm the status of your application. Don't worry about annoying the FEO though....they are accustomed to enquiries from BASC. Interesting that other shooting organisations do not have a similar service!

Are you a BASC member? If so, give the Firearms team a call. A nudge from them seems to unblock the process quite nicely according to other posts.

A few calls suggest two months for renewals, and three months for grants within TVP.

That is an unfair generalisation. On the whole the people working in Firearms Licencing are very competent, hard working and fair. The issue is resources. Pay is low (you can look up the vacancy adverts), they have a very heavy workload since there are insufficient staff (lack of budget), and if...

Clarification If you submit 8 weeks or more prior to expiry, you get a Section 28b Extension valid for 8 weeks. After that, storage charges are your problem. That said, it would be highly unusual for the Met to be that far behind.

Just tried and it seems to work https://www.dpteuro.co.uk/

Check out www.basc.org.uk Interesting articles and insight into UK issues. Also helpful if you ever want a UK visitor permit for shooting.

Latest guidance from the Met is 26 weeks, but I would work on 30 - 40 weeks.

Have you read the title of this thread.......I was intrigued to know what STALIN had against Wildcats!

Agree with both above - Open Condition. You just need to evidence somewhere to stalk, either a Permission or paid stalk will do.

Agree with VSS though. You either need Open Conditions or to have specific permission stated on your FAC. What your friends have is irrelevant.

So if you are under the Met, then your FAC is likely Open anyway since they stopped Landchecks some time ago. Provided you can evidence that you can go out with your friends you should be fine. If not, contact your shooting organisation so they can exert some influence on MPS FLD.

Retaining your FAC for target shooting just needs full membership of an organised (recognised) club. Keeping Open Conditions does require either at least one Permission, or evidence that you are undertaking paid stalks. If you are a BASC member and close enough to one of their stalking schemes...