Driving record preventing obtaining a license?

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First proper post here, I am looking at applying for my license in the next few months - once TVP start allowing applications again. I have a DR10 (Drink drive) from 2016 and a DG10 (Driving under the influence of cannabis) from 2018.

What are the chances of being accepted for a license? I'll obviously be open about everything on the application. I'm also planning on joining a club with a range to learn proper gun safety and practice shooting before I apply for my license.

Thanks :)
 
Don't think tbh you've much chance just yet anyhow. Both offences are still live on your driving licence and not spent under the rehabilitation of offenders act. Not that matters for a licence as no conviction is ever spent.
 
Without wishing to lecture you from atop a high horse, both of those offences relate to very poor judgement and a disregard for the safety of others. Not phrases that will sit will with the licensing manager when he or she is considering your suitability to look after firearms.

That said, each case is different. At the very least, they should be able to vice you an idea of when your application might be accepted in future.
 
You'd be very very unlikely to be considered for a licence at the moment (see zero above ) , but , that doesn't mean that you wouldn't be considered in the future , as long as you can show that you've changed your habits/lifestyle . Personally I'd give it at least another two or three years before an application.
Most of all ( please take this advice as it is intended) , grow up , and stop being irresponsible. 👍.
 
HAD you been a licenced firearms holder in 2018 you wouldn't be now lets look at it that way.
With history like that an FEO would not be happy or expected (and rightly so) to approve your application alone, your application would be escalated up the ranks for the decision to be made higher up.
You've shown recent poor judgement that could of easily had fatal consequences.
Having lessons, learning gun safety and being involved in shooting I'd like to think would not justifiably override your previous convictions.
 
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I would suggest speaking to whichever organisation you are a member of for their advice in your case.

Perhaps the SD collective, and your organisation, can also comment on withdrawing your application at this stage - rather than record a refusal to grant - and await the allotted run-out time for your offences.

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I do not wish to kick the bloke when he is already down.

If the facts are as reported, and his age is correct then:

At (about) 21 years of age he was convicted for drink driving. Alcohol is not illegal. He consumed a legal substance and then drove whilst over the 'prescribed limit'.

At (about) 23 years of age he was convicted for drug driving. Cannabis is an illegal substance. When he took it, he knew (must have known) that is was an illegal substance. Having taken that illegal substance he got back into his car and drove.

It stretches credibility to suggest that anyone was caught on the 'only' two occasions they broke the law.

His history tells me, he is manifestly unsuitable to possess firearms.

He is still a young man. He has time to develop other interests and pastimes. I hope he does.
 
Pliease correct me if I’m wrong but if due to previous convictions an applicant is not granted an FAC as a prohibited person, does that not mean being prohibited also from using or being permitted to use a firearm even at a club or with a mate?
 
Triggermortis said:
Pliease correct me if I’m wrong but if due to previous convictions an applicant is not granted an FAC as a prohibited person, does that not mean being prohibited also from using or being permitted to use a firearm even at a club or with a mate?
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A prohibited person is someone who is prohibited from having any access to firearms or ammunition.



A person who has been sentenced to imprisonment, detention or corrective training for a period of three years or more, is permanently prohibited from having any firearms or ammunition in their possession. This means for life and includes all firearms, even air weapons.

A person sentenced to imprisonment, detention or corrective training for a period of over three months but less than three years is prohibited from possessing firearms and ammunition for five years from the date of their release.



The OP is not (on the facts stated) a "prohibited" person.
 
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