1. It's not normally the Dáil's function to know the information above but they can easily find out if they want.
2. The Gardai are giving out the licences.
3. The Gardai know what guns they are licencing (out there).
4. The Gardai know who they are giving licences to.
5. The Gardai know where they are.

Yer man is fuppin clueless.

Look what I found the way he is talking you'd swear lads are walking into service stations with pistols on their hips............

http://www.rte.ie/news/regional/2022/0627/1307100-john-deasy-handgun-legislation/

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One of the worst TD's Waterford ever sent to the Dáil and that's some achievement.

I read this article on Breakingnews.ie I was amazed at the total ignorance of Greasy Deasy. I thought of this forum when I read it and just wondered where all these young guys were that were going to fight with guns rather than fists. https://www.breakingnews.ie/ireland/former-td-warns-against-beginning-of-handgun-culture-in-ireland-1325670.html

Agreed.

The man obviously does whatever he likes, not caring about the health of others.

I'm a smoker and the smoking ban, is to protect those who do not smoke and to protect workers in the workplace,(plus its the law), so I will comply. But they have not outlawed smoking completely, so I agree I pay my taxes and should be allowed live my life and smoke in accordance with the law.

Firearm ownership and the conditions setout for their use are also in the law.

Legal firearm holders (without getting in to specific special cases) are not allowed walk around with firearms or use or brandish them in any situation, location or manner not setout in the conditions of the licence.

This is a classic example of a person who does whatever he wants and to hell with how it effects (affects?) anyone else.

Whether it's smoking in a workplace and breaking the law, or targeting law abiding firearm holders calling them nutjobs “There are nutjobs, and there are nutjobs with guns"

The guy is obviously trying to make waves and be noticed, but he's basically slinging mud at an innocent minority to accomplish his goal. This should tell you all you need to know about the man.

Mr Deasy's disgusting nicotine addiction has probably killed more people with 2nd hand smoke in a year than all the legally held firearms have in a decade. The man is a political has been millionare who only got this interview and traction because he was the biggest political loudmouth at the time.. He'll be bawling next like a little Btch about some nasty Emails that he supposedly got from the nasty Irish gunowners... and had to get Garda protection because of it... According to him that is? Was there any follow up to this? anyone arrested?

Compared to the hate mail an average pro-gun politician or advocate gets. Stuff-like threats to burn down your house with you and your family in it, hoping that your wife, daughter, son, and mother are gang-raped and shot. To look under your car every morning for IEDs etc. Being called a C..t is pretty tame stuff... Big cry baby.🙄

Made a complaint to rte.

absolute dog shite. Has anybody here ever seen a place where you can just buy a glock online and it arrives at your door?

one of his main issue is the gardai dont know what licenses were issued. Really speaks of a fundamental issue at how garda intelligence works.

go to pulse and type

Select count(*) , station from dbo.firearm_licence where type=‘handgun’ groupby station

its not that hard

Amazing how a washed up politician can get air time

A repeat article is up on another site now too ..

The key term in this article is ex-TD… hopefully he'll stay that way.

This prat has gotten far too much attention than he deserves, he’s an ex TD for a reason. FG aren’t going to listen to someone who tried to take over the party, nor are they going to give him a “win” of any sorts. Best thing we can do is ignore him or get one of our own to show how his policies are stupid and don’t work.

Beats me why we cant use comparisons like; Northern Ireland Vs Republic. Polar opposites in gun ownership, and one with concealed carry possibility as well.

The Czech Republic, the "Texas" of Europe and a state in the EU with now more or less the RTKBA enshrined in its constitution.even possible to own full-auto in certain circumstances

Austria, also another state with concealed carry available, and pretty much any firearms,[bar pump-action shotguns for some reason] are available on demand. Both have the same population, more or less as Ireland in gun ownership.

Maybe because one had a Soviet Russian boot on its neck for 50 years, and the other is genuinely neutral and realises an armed population is a good asset to have?

Makes more sense than trying to compare.250 k worth of licensed firearms and a population of +/- 4.75 million that would fit comfortably into Los Angeles as being new to the parish without too much disruption.To a country of close to 400 million people with now well North of half a billion known firearms and an estimated one TRILLION rounds of ammo in private hands. Blue whale and dormouse comparison.

Oh come on, Reddit as a source? Not to mention the multitude of things wrong with it. It doesn’t differentiate between semi auto rifles and other long guns, it doesn’t bother to classify Russian and British policies, it’s wrong for Romanian regarding handguns and it’s groups are far to wide, lumping in Poland’s lenient policies with Denmark and Greece which are extremely harsh when it comes to semi autos.

More restrictions on the tiny number of legally held handguns will be respected by every criminal and ne'er do well. Deasy seems to have puffed away his already limited mental faculties. Maybe something for an anti-smoking campaign - don't smoke away yer brains (like Deasy)!

Anyone that goes through all the hoops to get a firearms licence in this country and didn't snap during the process is unlikely to be going on a rampage.