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#11 Post by 20series »

Dont get me started, Mine ran out in February, visit happened in September and still waiting.. p*** poor tried to call, left messages and emails nothing.

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#12 Post by Christel »

Around here, if you contact the department, your application gets put at the bottom of the pile...
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#13 Post by Pippin89 »

bradaz11 wrote: Tue Sep 20, 2022 4:04 pm i love how they think members of organised crime would apply for an FAc to hone their skills.
An article in a national newspaper explaining how the Police aren't checking for links to the criminal life is probably a good incentive to get them applying....
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#14 Post by bradaz11 »

Pippin89 wrote: Wed Nov 30, 2022 7:14 am
bradaz11 wrote: Tue Sep 20, 2022 4:04 pm i love how they think members of organised crime would apply for an FAc to hone their skills.
An article in a national newspaper explaining how the Police aren't checking for links to the criminal life is probably a good incentive to get them applying....
I mean, I like your presumption they can read, let alone that they read newspapers
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#15 Post by Blackstuff »

Why bother applying themselves when they can just steal them from existing owners thanks to the Gun Trader leak and subsequent publishing of every member of the sites name, address, contact details and location, which is still very much out there
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#16 Post by walesdave »

bradaz11 wrote: Tue Sep 20, 2022 4:04 pm i love how they think members of organised crime would apply for an FAc to hone their skills.
Back around 1995ish an acquaintance of mine shot and killed another acquaintance (we all drank in the same pubs in town) with his legally held pistol over a drug dealing feud.

I was out of the country at the time and when I eventually came back to the UK and found out about the killing the first thought I had was how on earth did get an FAC when 'everyone' in town knew he was a drug dealer!

I'm 'sure' things have tightened up since then though....probably.....
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AL8 wrote: Thu Sep 15, 2022 9:39 pm cant open, have to sign up to
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#18 Post by Alpha1 »

I rang my licencing office to day with a query about my certificate. (Cleveland) the Guy emailed me a new certificate and informed me that a paper copy is in the post. The whole thing took half an hour.
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#19 Post by Pippin89 »

Dark Skies wrote: Thu Dec 01, 2022 8:35 pm
AL8 wrote: Thu Sep 15, 2022 9:39 pm cant open, have to sign up to
Try pasting the link into the field box here:
https://archive.ph/

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