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ok no better man to stand corrected but i once went to buy a .22 in the eighties but got such an interagation from local gardai i gave up and enjoyed firing 7.62 on my range practises..again i thought all weapons above .22 were collected at the start of troubles...
ok no better man to stand corrected but i once went to buy a .22 in the eighties but got such an interagation from local gardai i gave up and enjoyed firing 7.62 on my range practises..again i thought all weapons above .22 were collected at the start of troubles...
brought you the range....luck bastard.|I was brought once to the range after recruits,it was foggy and we couldn't fire, anything after that that resembled range practise involved sinking bags of gash with a an FN or firing at a Milk Crate dropped over the stern on a heaving line.
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ok no better man to stand corrected but i once went to buy a .22 in the eighties but got such an interagation from local gardai i gave up and enjoyed firing 7.62 on my range practises..again i thought all weapons above .22 were collected at the start of troubles...
was on a good few ammo dumps all everyone wanted to do was get rid of all the boxes of old crap and after two or three hours on deck no one cared what was in them...the thing is only very few can hold a weapon above .22 calibre in ireland...
Anyone following the furore over the report out last week by the DoJ wherin the GS seek to have basically all legit short firearms prohibited along with S/A shotguns/pumps that are capable of holding more than three rounds and all S/A C/F rifles.The reasons put foward to justify the bans appear to be very selective/self serving,dubious and distorted.
Anyone following the furore over the report out last week by the DoJ wherin the GS seek to have basically all legit short firearms prohibited along with S/A shotguns/pumps that are capable of holding more than three rounds and all S/A C/F rifles.The reasons put foward to justify the bans appear to be very selective/self serving,dubious and distorted.
No didn't see this - can you post a link ? The DOJ/GS won't rest until all privately owned firearms are made illegal. I applied for my license renewal last May and am still waiting for the local Super to decide. Can anyone tell me the last time a .22 sporting rifle was used in a murder ? Illegal Glocks on the other hand seem to be 2 a penny in Dublin's ganglands.
“The nation that will insist on drawing a broad line of demarcation between the fighting man and the thinking man is liable to find its fighting done by fools and its thinking done by cowards.”
― Thucydides
No didn't see this - can you post a link ? The DOJ/GS won't rest until all privately owned firearms are made illegal. I applied for my license renewal last May and am still waiting for the local Super to decide. Can anyone tell me the last time a .22 sporting rifle was used in a murder ? Illegal Glocks on the other hand seem to be 2 a penny in Dublin's ganglands.
"He is an enemy officer taken in battle and entitled to fair treatment."
"No, sir. He's a sergeant, and they don't deserve no respect at all, sir. I should know. They're cunning and artful, if they're any good. I wouldn't mind if he was an officer, sir. But sergeants are clever."
They'll try it anywhere, but the Irish government and average man on the street thinks that anyone who wants a firearm is dodgy by definition.
Fairly strict over here. Including self-defence justifications which would never fly in Ireland, you can effectively own four weapons. One for self-defence, and one each rifle, pistol and shotgun for sport or hunting purposes. There is often a long waiting process for the competency certificate (knowledge of law and training in use) and licence, which slows things down and the decision is made in a central registry, the firearms officer in your local station just accepts the application, interviews your references and checks your safe.
For better or worse there is a dedicated sports/hunter certification which allows you to more or less get anything you want.
Of course, it got abused by guys who used it to stock up on large caches of semi-auto ARs, shotguns and AKs just because they could.
Of course, that has now come to the attention of the powers that be and as a result it will probably be closed down for everyone. A football star being killed by robbers with (illegal) firearms will probably speed up the process. If I'm criminally minded I could still pop down to Alexandra and buy a fully automatic weapon, possibly from a corrupt cop.
Lesson? Government will always clamp down on legal ownership because they can't do anything about illegal firearms and have to be seen to do something, but shooters can be their own worst enemies.
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