39 liscensed since 2015/22.And there are 89 in toto in the state since 2015/22.Offical response from Min Browne himself to a Dail question.So nothing"dubious"about it.They (DOJ)should know their own paperwork on how many of these they issued import certs for?So thems the offical govt deps figures.We work off those.

Be it as it may,as to whatever dubiousness we might believe them to be. They are the official figures from a department that has the responsibility for issuing the imports to this little country of ours.A minister has gone on record to say this it such in our parliament. So that's what we must fly with.Be it 39,309 or 390,000 that are out there! It actually looks good that IMO a minister is Hell bent on trying make a meal out of something that could be quietly sorted by grandfathering those 39 rifles on the QWT,and still getting his grand announcement of making us all safer or whatever else is going on in his fancy boy college educated mind on this matter.

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Garda dismisses the issue of pistol mag capacity because no one has written to complain to the Firearms Policy Unit Of An Garda Síochána

Are they seriously extracting the urine here??? Why would anyone be writing to them in the 1st place on something like this? Its a piece of legislation backed up by a High Court judgement. Its utterly Kafkaesque this thinking.

Are they pulling figure out of their backside as security standards, sure I might as well just become a dealer and then they can tell me where I can sell and can’t sell guns..

While a timelock might make sense in unattended commercial premises.it makes Zero sense in a domestic house! As our houses are mostly occupied by the owners,who are more than likely going to react by phoning AGS that a break-in is in progress? About the only time AGS will react at full speed to a break in is where there is a gun at the address these days.

Also, how and for what time will we be setting this time lock? Who will even control that we set this lock , will there be a nationally mandated law to when we can have access to our personal property?

Also from recent experience the word "substantial" should be banned from any legislation. Remember the fun of defining a "substantial meal" in the Covid years? So please define what a "substantial amount" of firearms are in law and not leave it open to every Supers interpretation,as then going by some of their comments and views substantial with them could be three or more!!

Thermal users need training to distinguish between birds in the bush vs larger animals. seriously! Do they think that serious hunters are shooting aimlessly through hedges and trees with rifles..

Then they go on to suggest that high-resolution NV devices can be too good and might fall into the wrong hands and should only be issued to professionals.

I SERIOUSLY have to question did anyone on this committee even LOOK at a NV or thermal unit in the flesh so to speak?

Or did they just go and ask some kids about it who play a lot of Call of Duty or Medal of Honour? Because this report reads like the idiocy of the previous legislation on restricting certain features, because...Hollywood!!!

They should be ASHAMED of themselves to produce such a shoddy and ridiculous report. As even an hour's worth of Youtube would educate anyone on the intricacies of working a thermal unit.If you can programme a smart TV, or use a modern mobile phone you are qualified enough to programme and operate such a unit Nor will you get such high-resolution units either on the open market easily

Gen 4 plus that have this high resoloution are ITAR-restricted products outside the US, and even in favoured trading countries like Germany or the UK. They will NOT sell these online or outside their countries not to mind without your proof of ID being produced! As these are "end user certificates" items. Plus they are serious cash too 3to 5 thousand is a good starting price for some of these units. Just another agenda-driven bit of the report with scaremongering.

That will wake up the slumbering giant of the IFA! Already there are some snarky comments coming from its members on the oral permissions and AGS deciding for them who they can or cannot let on their land to hunt.