Waiting Times for Lancs FAC

Rasputin

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Sent my FAC application off a month ago along with my current shotgun cert for the joint one and haven't heard anything and they still haven't cashed the cheque. Should I chase up? Last time I sent my SGC in for renewal they cashed the cheque asap even if the visit and renewal took longer.

Thanks.
 
Applied for a variation with Northumbria. Took 3 weeks from application to recieving. Very good service.
 
I would email the Firearms Licensing team asking for confirmation that they have received your application - most licensing departments have an automated email reply confirming receipt of your email. Even better if they take telephone enquiries and you can confirm with a staff member. Either way might give you peace of mind
 
drop them an email asking for confirmation of receipt, can take a few weeks to grind through the internal systems and get to the bank. good news is if they have cashed your cheque they have the paperwork!!
West Mids. and Staffs are now issuing temporary certificates by return as there running so far behind they now do this as a matter of routine. I got my temp cert three days after they received my coterminous paperwork..
 
Thanks will chase them up tomorrow. Iv got land to shoot on and am itching to get out. It's like being a kid on xmas eve only it lasting months
 
the phone lines are only manned for a couple of hours in the afternoon, you will find they do respond to e-mails. i had my firearms go missing in the post, (not from them) I e-mailed them and received a call within 24hrs and had my duplicate in my hand 24hrs after that.
They also changed it to AOLQ for me, and sent a replacement euro firearms cert,
After reading some of the horror stories about renewals and variations i thought it was worth posting.
Best of luck,
Paul
 
Just an update emailed then got called back this morning. They have a back log on grants and are currently processing applications sent Mid Jan!!! Was told it's likely to be another 2 months at least!!! Sucks but hey ho what can you do? Least they were spot on with coming back to me within a few minutes.
 
Met a chap on Sunday under LCC and he told me he has been waiting since November for his FAC and had his interview last week. Previously he held a FAC but let it elapse. Jesus wept it's obscene. Good job I paid to join a syndicate and am currently leaving all the deer for the other members
 
Well 8 weeks is still a **** take. If a business was 8 weeks behind schedule it would go pop. Its a pain in the derriere
 
Mine has been with Lancashire for over 7 weeks now, did hear that they could be 12 weeks. Nothing to do but wait, they are short staffed and have on the priorities too.
 
Have just had an email back from the horses mouth so to speak and they are talking at least 6 months for a grant of a new certificate!
 
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News keeps getting grimmer and grimmer. 6 months? @@@@ its a lottery. I mean seriously how hard and how time consuming can it be. The system surely needs sorting out. I literally don't think the current system of references, visit etc is the best way to do it. For instance the home visits are imo likely the biggest time killer especially in a large country which is slow to get around like Lancs. Surely it would be easier to just have a face to face meeting at the local station where the FLO could then sit and see a person every 15 minutes without all the driving around from house to house. For the inspection why not just have a dedicated inspection person to just drive around look at cabinet then move on thus saving the 1 hour it takes to interview and move onto the next person. A qualified person could do an inspection within 5 minutes. Just a thought for speeding things up.

Where is the quickest place in the country right now to get a FAC granted? I supposed I could just go and rent somewhere in that county for a few months then apply for a transfer. Someone said Cumbria was under a month. Genuinely a possibility for me as I work from home so its not an issue to relocate if it saves 4 months or more.
 
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