As per the legislation, if no answer received within 3 months then the application is denied. Next stop should be solicitor (or take case yourself, €20 to file and €9.50 for registered post) on day 91, or (deleted)

Update.

Daughter has been ringing the desk number of the Firearms Officer every 2nd day, but no answer.

Today the FO rang her back!

The upshot is that the local Station where the form was handed in has never forwarded it to the FO.

She ( the FO) has emailed all three Garda in the local Station requesting they send her the form.

Three months waiting, and find we are no further on than the first day.....

Perhaps now they will come out and inspect my gun safe like they promised in December, and again in January .....

Just submitted one in Kerry. Start the clock

What conversion kit, as looking at one myself?

PM'd

Letter from doctor,what's that about and what would a doctor write in said letter

Dunno, I suppose they expect a Doctor to reveal if the applicants has serious mental issues.

It's another €50 tax.

Sorted out letters from independent referee and Doctor, now they want a copy of the receipt I got when I bought the gun and got it into my name, a year+ ago...

Which has nothing to do with my daughter getting her own licence now. ( I'm not charging her for it).

FFS.......

He just stated he "knows her for the last ten years and knows of no reason she should not be granted a licence"

It's an absolute waste of time, as it takes at least 4 intense sessions for a head shrinker to get an idea of what's going on in there. Nor is a GP anymore qualified to judge mental illness as they are qualified to do brain surgery. Unless the person is sitting across from them dribbling onto their shoes and saying "Nurr I like bicycles" or the doc has been treating them for maybe chronic depression and hopefully not being giving them Lithium-based medications[The 80% common factor of all mass shootings in the USA since 1984]. So it would be a very foolish doctor to sign off on something of mental issues when they are not qualified or involved to do so.

They are giving Neckersulm the runaround for whatever reasons.

Only tangential to this group, I have an Authorisation to hold deactivated firearms as well as my FAC's. Last year took almost 4 months AFTER expiration to be renewed (and backdated to expiration), even though I made contact almost 2 months before expiration. This year contact was initiated 2 months before (requesting the name of the " Firearms Officer") First reply was yesterday, less than 1 month to go, and was a cursory, we passed on your request, by a Civil Servant Clerical Officer, not a Garda, and that my request had been forwarded to a named Sgt, but not telling me who to contact nor any pertinent info. Today 5 weeks after first contact, and having gone through District Office, I am still no further along and my authorisation expires in 3 weeks. Kinda looking forward to my 3 year FAC's expiring later this year.

The dealer claims he has 29 guns sitting with deposits taken, and lads are getting the run-around for months on end, licence wise.

Some over 6 months waiting, one or two took back their deposit and cancelled their application in resignation

I'm surprised dealers let their local Superintendents off with this carry-on of them being stuck with paid-for stock and yet AGS delays and dallies with granting authorisations for people to go and collect their goods. Imagine what sort of an outcry there would be if this was being applied to car sales.[Which have killed more people this year alone than legally owned guns have in Ireland in the last 40 years]. One gun dealer suggested and has tried to bring the Chief Commissioner to sort this out that the gun dealers with this backlog should bill the CC a euro per day for any time the gun is sitting in storage after the mandated 90 days.

He has researched it and the average time it takes for a gun to clear from purchase or deposit to going out the door is ….263 DAYS!!! This is one of the biggest dealers and importers in Ireland. Now multiply that by 29 in Neckersulm's dealer case @1euro per day by X amount of gun dealers left in Ireland with a vast stockpile of bought/deposited guns that have been even authorised but are sitting awaiting the paperwork. Needless to say, he has had zero response from AGS and DOJ to having a meeting with the Chief Commissioner, and seeing that the Irish gun dealers/smiths are the most fragmented group of us all,no one will consider doing anything to better this situation.

They should just come out and state that they don't want members of the public to own guns.

That's a given on a global scale! You have the anti-gun-ownership UN, the anti-gun EU, bar the former East blocs more or less,who had the pleasure of living with a Soviet jackboot on their necks for 50-odd years and know the value of having firearms in private hands, and the Balkans where its considered a normal tool and badge of manhood to have a gun.We are too smug and complacent in the West as we haven't had any real oppression for centuries. Of course, they would love to say and do this but then it would simply show that we are a police state that is using outdated arguments of terrorists and criminals being armed by stealing firearms off civilians. That they have vetted for not being such!

But if you play the long game and discourage, obfusticate,and make it as difficult as possible to obtain,you will kill it off over a generation or two. That's why it is vitally important you keep your daughter on track to get her license and as everyone should do is encourage our kids to take shooting up as well.If anything it will teach them patience in getting the liscense.

8 days here in Kilkenny on a substitution from 22 lr handgun to 22lr rifle. FO wasn't sure if she could do a handgun to rifle as they are different types of firearms, but all went thru OK.

Here is a new one for you,

Rang my station to inquire as to when the Firearms Officer or Sergeant was on duty and was told that due to security reasons, they could not divulge that information.

This is what you are up against.

whats the current wait time for Kerry do you know?

I thought after 3 months the application was deemed to be refused?

Possible record today, Dropped a new application into kildare and got a call 3 hours later (confirming address) and told it was approved to be sent in the post

Mind me asking what station you're dealing with cause by god they seem to have their act together.

Well pray they never leave because from reading most of what you post here they seem to fly through new applications and substitutions alike, they're an example to many around the country of how to do it right