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Alpha1 wrote:Your Club Secretary should be monitoring your frequency of use. You could all ways ask your Clubs Police Liason officer to ask the question of your local firearms department after all that's what he is there for.

Likewise, read the guidance.

Alpha1 wrote:Your Club Secretary should be monitoring your frequency of use. You could all ways ask your Clubs Police Liason officer to ask the question of your local firearms department after all that's what he is there for.

I am our (very small) Club Secretary, and do record when people shoot, there are definitely going to be people who've not be able to use each firearm twice this year, me being one of them. When I enquired about this during my renewal, I was told that the licensing team will be taking restrictions due to covid into account. If the range is shut, you can't comply with the FAC conditions.

Paragraph 13.53 of the Home Office Guidance to Police on Firearms Law states there will be times when frequency can't be met and that's not reason for revocation on the basis of not satisfying good reason. Again the same paragraph states three times a year and not twice...

Sim G wrote:A mate asked his FEO about "frequency of use" and the FEO told him not to worry about it, given the circumstances. The current guidance backs this up.

Very sensible.

LL

After running 4 very successful shoots at the MoD range at Ponteland just outside Newcastle, sticking to a max 30 people on site at any one time and sticking to Covid guidelines, we have been told the MoD are now sticking to the rule of 6. And yet I met a guy today who was shooting at Marne Clay Shooting club which is within Marne Barracks at Catterick - on MoD land!!!

Sim G wrote:

Alpha1 wrote:Your Club Secretary should be monitoring your frequency of use. You could all ways ask your Clubs Police Liason officer to ask the question of your local firearms department after all that's what he is there for.

Likewise, read the guidance.

I am well-read when it comes to the guidance and on first name terms with my firearms licencing officer I am in Cleveland and they top the league in anything to do with firearms licencing my members have nothing to worry about. I have it all in hand.

Lever357 wrote:After running 4 very successful shoots at the MoD range at Ponteland just outside Newcastle, sticking to a max 30 people on site at any one time and sticking to Covid guidelines, we have been told the MoD are now sticking to the rule of 6. And yet I met a guy today who was shooting at Marne Clay Shooting club which is within Marne Barracks at Catterick - on MoD land!!!

Landmark who run the ranges on behalf of the MOD have cancelled the ranges they control.
Barrack ranges can be different. I have booked Barrack ranges at Catterick. I dont book them through the normal booking office at Wathgill that operaes the Caterick ranges.

As long as its an organised shoot and a governing body (if applicable) has given the go ahead then the sport exemption exists for shooting. It also provides an exemption against the 'rule of 6' (max 30). Yet again Landmarc just making things up to make it difficult for civvie shooters