glueman
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I was given the legal extension then I know have an section 7 is another 1 months extension and now I wait
as we have to have Licence for an air rifle here in Scotland Mine is down in England with a Relative, easker1
You might still get locked up for crossing the border next month though!Next month friends and I will be crossing the border with a small arsenal of high velocity rifles and shotguns with no worries what so ever. But if I bring an old knackered Webley pellet rifle that I've had since I was a kid I risk being locked up. It seems really dumb to me.
You might still get locked up for crossing the border next month though!
As an aside, my health practice phoned to-day, no one in to receive call, no message left, only reason I know they phoned is last 5 callers display on phone.
Phoned them back at 4pm, person trying to contact me has gone for the weekend.
On pursueing the reason for the call, I discover they want £35plus vat for carrying out Police Scotland instructions (flagging my record for future notifications of mental health issues, and confirming my current state of health, as per my renewal declaration)
Now, to day is 21 days exactly from me handing in said forms to surgery.
First line on the letter from Police Scotland to my doctor states "you have 21 days to comply with this request"
Dont know if form has been sent, as person at other end was not in the loop, so to speak, so now I must wait till Monday to find out if form has been returned, and indeed querry charge.
Are they really trying so hard to make renewals too difficult?
Bert
Was tried before, but G.P's in general objected to the fact they could be used as fall guys. How are police getting away with it this time, and indeed placing the onus for the payment of sending records to police onto applicant, especially as some G.P's might object?Arse covering by senior police officers . Politically they can’t have another Thomas Hamilton or Derrick Bird on their watch . So by adding the layer of the GP cross check of your records , and the placing of a firearms marker on your medical record , they hope that the GP can be used as filter and or mitigation if you decide to go on the rampage .
You might still get locked up for crossing the border next month though!
I would wait till after Nicola's 12.30 news bulletin!I'll be on the phone to the legal team at BASC tomorrow morning!
We have a forestry manager going mental at the moment because they've seen a huge decrease in stalkers when they've undertaken a lot of replanting and they're seeing too many deer. He also has wild boar on one forest and can't get a license for night shooting so he's not a happy bunny at all.
I would wait till after Nicola's 12.30 news bulletin!
What might be ok before lunch will probs be obsolete after lunch!
Bert
I hope they were cheap and cheerful not posh because they will be scrapped. I was told by Harriman of a case where a punter handed guns in on a temporary basis and they lost them eventually finding them in a shed rusty.Sadly, my shotguns are now officially out of circulation, I handed them in along with unused ammunition to my local constabulaty. It seems that the use of shotguns is a bit like fly fishing, no new blood coming through to advance the sport.
Good, just dont stop anywhere in central Scotland on way up. Currently worst outbreak of all going on in central belt.Well I'm due up there next week. The hotel I use need a letter proving my visit relates to essential work. Apparently they will accept a letter from the forestry manager stating that we are engaged in deer management and crop protection. BASC and the local plod are ok with that too.
I hope they were cheap and cheerful not posh because they will be scrapped. I was told by Harriman of a case where a punter handed guns in on a temporary basis and they lost them eventually finding them in a shed rusty.
Good, just dont stop anywhere in central Scotland on way up. Currently worst outbreak of all going on in central belt.
Stay safe.
Take a salmon rod too!Thanks. We're in D&G. Contact will be minimal other than sleeping in a hotel. One of the guys is in a camper van so all good. We won't even be taking any carcasses to the local game dealers, they'll be coming home as venison prices are ridiculously low at the minute with all the restaurants being closed. :/
Take a salmon rod too!
Nith still open till end of November, often huge fresh back end salmon caught last week november!
Bert