Licence Delay

kiwijbob

hi,

about to pull my hair out here, you see I bought a shotgun in early
February...fine.. I applied for my licence and it turned out that the
gun hadn't been de-registered form the previous gun owner which
caused a delay, then the garda called me to say that they made
a mistake in the issuing of the licence (sounded like a clerical mistake)
and that it'd have to go back in and done again. I've called the local
firearms officer loads whom I get on with very well but he says that
there isn't anything he can do about the delay and that he's at the
mercy of the guys/gals in the phoenix park? I got a stamped receipt
on Feb 5th from the garda (must check I still have that !!) and I'm
aware there is a 3 month time limit? any advice??

thanks in advance..
(going to call again now but the FO is hard to get hold of)

Clare gunner

ring the park and ask them what gives????They are usually very on the ball and get things out within 24/48 hours.It sounds like a local fk up and are blaming Dublin.

ArthurJ

kiwijbob wrote:

.. I'm aware there is a 3 month time limit? any advice??

The three month limit is not in force yet. So you might have to wait a few more months.

Best of luck

sixpointfive

the sooner the better that is in, my first licence took 9 months (fifteen years ago eeek), my mate took 11 months last year and he already had two lincence

kiwijbob

Clare gunner wrote:

ring the park and ask them what gives

ring who in the park?

i talked to the FO today and he said the details
he had on the computer weren't correct, so I spoke to the gun
shop and was told that the details have already been changed
nobody can tell me what to do, will wait til next week !!

Umiq88

Mary whoever that is never had to so dont have her number someone will though

Vegeta

psittacosis wrote:

Mary whoever that is never had to so dont have her number someone will though

Mary is usually on the ball and very helpful

newby.204

Mary??? sorry lads you lost me!!

Vegeta

newby.204 wrote:

Mary??? sorry lads you lost me!!

if your license goes wrong and you ring the phoenix park to figure out what's going on, its usually a woman called Mary who tells you what process the license is at and if they have signed off on it yet. At least then you know where you stand and if the local gardai are yanking your chain

Kramer

I don't know what they would do if they didn't have "them in Dublin" to blame :rolleyes: . Delays are 100% totally due to your local guard & super.

Case in point: a friend recently waited 16 weeks for a HMR licence. He was already on PULSE - firearms licence holder. Guard blamed everyone bar himself. "Them in Dublin" took most of the blame. After 12 odd weeks, I rang the Phoenix Park office for him to be told NO application had come in to them & there were NO delays at their end, i.e. max 2/3 days turnaround.

I contacted the super's clerk who said he had NO record of receiving the application from the local station. In effect, the application went nowhere as the "responsible" guard couldn't be arsed to do his job.

It took me 12 weeks earlier this year to get an ammendment from .243 to .223 :eek: .

Keep chasing your local guy as he's the reason nothing's happening.

hillybilly

Mary Hurley

The Park caused a delay in my pistol ap.. took a couple of weeks to get instead of coming in with my two rifle licenses