Changing rules on gun ownership - action required - BASC advice

[Conor O'Gorman]

On 29 June the Home Office launched an eight-week consultation on proposals that will impact on the licensing of shotguns and rifles in England, Wales and Scotland for decades to come.

BASC is urging every shotgun and firearm certificate holder in Great Britain to spend five minutes completing a short Home Office survey in response to the consultation, which closes on 23 August 2023.

This is the most important consultation on firearms ownership in 35 years. You must not be silent and think others will do the work for you. The shooting community must respond in numbers. Make sure you have your say.

Recommendations to merge shotgun and firearms licensing conditions have been dropped prior to publication of the consultation. This was due to lobbying by BASC and others, on the grounds that the proposals were neither evidence-led nor proportionate.

However, there remain several harmful proposals that need to be opposed, and several helpful proposals to be supported.

Please click the weblink below to read BASC's advice on completing the Home Office survey

Changing rules on gun ownership – action required - BASC

Find all the information you need to respond to the Home Office consultation on gun ownership in England, Scotland and Wales.

basc.org.uk

 

[Apthorpe]

Purely coincidental that they should have lined this consultation up to run over the summer holidays thus suppressing responses?

 

[Bowland blades]

Purely coincidental that they should have lined this consultation up to run over the summer holidays thus suppressing responses?

Its online , you can respond anywhere in the world you have cell service ! Took me 10 mins last night

 

[Fiadh]

Done

 

[Julian S]

Done

 

[Sellars]

Done.

 

[Tony Morgan]

Done

 

[Tony Morgan]

Purely coincidental that they should have lined this consultation up to run over the summer holidays thus suppressing responses?

Nonsense, get it done.

 

[Apthorpe]

Nonsense, get it done.

I have.

 

[SOE]

Done

 

[Jelen]

Done

 

[Old Pultney]

Done here - but the work of a moment.

 

[ashray]

done

 

[ColinBr]

Done

 

[tonyshooter]

Done

 

[Stalker62]

Completed, and I even put what I thought - and that was not always, that which was 'recommended' by BASC.

However, their 'free text' advice for the final question, was 'cut & past' straight in, and I didn't even blush...

• Financial penalties imposed on those chief officers who fail to run efficient firearms licensing units.
• Sound moderators to be removed from the licensing regime.
• His Majesty’s Inspectorate of Constabulary advice on changes to firearms licensing to be mandatory rather than recommendations.
• Creation of a centralised office to control police standards and performance in firearms licensing.
• Firearms law to be codified and consolidated.

 

[Morkai]

I did find the recommended answer from BASC for prison sentence question a bit strange.

 

[Stalker62]

I did find the recommended answer from BASC for prison sentence question a bit strange.

That was one of ones I disagreed with...

 

[Morkai]

This is the question -

2. Do you consider that the prohibition on possessing firearms should be changed from one that is based solely on length of a custodial sentence following conviction, to one based more on the nature of the offence?​

I think the nature of the offence is far more important than the sentence served.

 

[Fosbery Holster]

Done.