Home Office Consultation on Increases to Licence Fees

[RobertBeard]

The Home Office has just published a consultation paper on increases to the Home Office Licence Fees for Section 5 Firearms, Museums and Shooting Clubs.

For Shooting Clubs the Home Office licence allows clubs to let people without firearms certificates shoot firearms.  These can either be club members using club guns or members of the public having a trial shoot once their details have been previously provided to the police so that they have an opportunity to object to the person.

The current fee is £84 for 6 years.  This is undoubtedly out of date and due an increase much as was recently applied to Firearms and Shotgun Licences.

The proposals, supposedly based on records of time and resources expended by the Police and Home Office suggest a fee on a first grant of £1,050 and a renewal fee of £900 for the 6 year licence, all payable in advance!

I can only urge everyone involved in a firearms based shooting club to write and object to these eye watering proposals.

Home Office Consultation on Proposals to increase Home Office Licence Fees for Section 5 holders, Museums and Shooting Clubs 

 

[jwpzx9r]

Sounds a bit steep that ! Down here we are paying €57 plus a Dr's fee of €25 per annum so again shooting in France at least is a good bit cheaper than UK. Also one thing that is greatly different down here is ... you will never see or be interviewed by the police. I think if you have any good reason why you should not have a gun ...do not apply they know and you won't get one   

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And by the way none of that goes to the government that is the license fee to be a member of say the FFBT once you have your license you are good to go and buy that shooter.

 

[MJJ]

It should read - How can we diminish the legal ownership and use of firearms without making it to obvious. £50 a year should suffice. Some of these people really do have to justify having a job!