FAC How long did your take to get issued ?

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qws · #1 Post by **qws** » Tue Mar 17, 2015 3:06 pm

I applied for mine 14th July 2014 arrived on my door step 16th March 2015 - I wonder if this is a record

That's Durham for you - But at last I have is, so on a shopping spree

Tony-c · #2 Post by **Tony-c** » Tue Mar 17, 2015 3:34 pm

mine was about 3 weeks from posting forms to it landing on my mat

RobB · #3 Post by **RobB** » Tue Mar 17, 2015 3:36 pm

Mine was about 4 weeks with a subsequent variation a year later taking twice as long

#4 Post by **Blackstuff** » Tue Mar 17, 2015 3:39 pm

Mine took 4 weeks, from Durham! But thats when all the FEO's were coppers. And shooters to boot.

#5 Post by **phaedra1106** » Tue Mar 17, 2015 4:09 pm

About 3 months for my coterminous fac/sgc with Durham in 2011, thought it may have been a bit quicker as I already had my sgc and had previously held both for about 15 years before having a few years off while the kids were little.

#6 Post by **Sim G** » Tue Mar 17, 2015 4:18 pm

Durham Constabulary as a whole and firearms licensing in particular got a right "kicking" from the Horden inquests. A lot of it, justly so! I reckon they'll continue to crawl all over applicants at renewal and grants for a considerable time to come.

For those local to the North East, has a civil claim fro the victims families been filed?

#7 Post by **phaedra1106** » Tue Mar 17, 2015 4:46 pm

Not as far as I know, Durham were all over Bobby Turnbull (who lost his mum, sister and aunt) and you could almost see the chief constables hand up his bum working his mouth as they appeared in various interviews with him pushing for tougher gun laws and the creation of the now defunct "reporting hotline" in an effort to avert attention away from their own departments failings.

The only thing that happened after the IPPC report was the appointment of a chief inspector (Steve Ball) to oversee the firearms department, that didn't help at all and he's now gone off elsewhere. They are still pushing ahead with "initiatives" to help reduce gun crime and toughen licensing by demanding extra medical forms for all applications and renewals.

#8 Post by **snayperskaya** » Tue Mar 17, 2015 5:12 pm

5 weeks, West Mercia

DW58 · #9 Post by **DW58** » Tue Mar 17, 2015 5:22 pm

Around a fortnight - Thames Valley, ca. 1977.

25Pdr · #10 Post by **25Pdr** » Tue Mar 17, 2015 6:03 pm

One Day, and it was delivered to my door by two nice policemen....It was Renfrewshire and the date was 1968.

Think it was five shillings. 25p.

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