Dave6170
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- Location
- Watten, caithness
Got my shotgun licence back on Friday. Pity I can't go buy a gun now.
Firearms Licensing
- Thread starter CornishTone
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farmerm
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- Location
- Shropshire
essential/business use..
Dave6170
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- Location
- Watten, caithness
Shop is click and collect only.essential/business use..
farmerm
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- Location
- Shropshire
My local gun shop is also a farm/general supplies so its business as usual
- Location
- Scottish Highlands
You’re in a different country from Dave.
PDE1
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- Location
- East Sussex
Shotgun and firearm license are due in may, problem is our local doctors surgery shut and taken over by town centre one. They won’t fill in the form for the police because they object to people owning guns, which is fine as I have found a local doctor willing to do it but now the surgery won’t let me have my notes for him to use or give him access
Minesapint
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- Location
- Oxon
I doubt that is legal. You have a right to a copy of your records, so request them and pass onto the obliging doctor. The whole licensing mess needs sorting out.
PDE1
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- Location
- East Sussex
They have to give you a copy but in my case first you have to request a form then send it to them , they then have 28 days to do this. Problem is I am still waiting for the form.
- Location
- south norfolk
I’ve just renewed my licence and just sent paperwork of and it all came back ok.I put my doctors name down but he has been retired for at least 4/5 years so they probably never contacted him anyway.did take a long time as they are typically short staffed
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Dave6170
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- Location
- Watten, caithness
Its not for them to object to anyone getting a firearm! Demand it gets done
PDE1
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- Location
- East Sussex
Sussex police won’t do that , without the form being filled out and stamped by a gp they won’t even process your renewal
PDE1
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- Location
- East Sussex
There is no legal obligation on them at the moment to do this. I looked at moving doctors as another surgery will do these but due to COVID no new patients are being taken on
Dave6170
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- Location
- Watten, caithness
Have to pay £30 here but they do it no bother
- Location
- Scottish Highlands
Get your solicitor to raise an action in detinue against the chief constable. If nothing else, I'd be getting mine to write a letter (with numerous copies to the newspapers, MP, etc.) stating that an action was pending regardless.
The law is not there to be manipulated and applied according to the prejudices of public servants who work for and are paid by us. The UK isn't a police state yet unless we allow it to be. Whoever is preventing the OP from getting HIS medical records needs to be sacked.
Definition of detinue
1: a common-law action for the recovery of a personal chattel wrongfully detained or of its value.
When I needed an operation and I had a friend who was a leading surgeon in Prague who offered to do it I got a copy of my records sent to him with no bother, and at NHS expense.
The above firearms case is an absolute disgrace.
The law is not there to be manipulated and applied according to the prejudices of public servants who work for and are paid by us. The UK isn't a police state yet unless we allow it to be. Whoever is preventing the OP from getting HIS medical records needs to be sacked.
Definition of detinue
1: a common-law action for the recovery of a personal chattel wrongfully detained or of its value.
When I needed an operation and I had a friend who was a leading surgeon in Prague who offered to do it I got a copy of my records sent to him with no bother, and at NHS expense.
The above firearms case is an absolute disgrace.
ollie989898
Member
Doctors refusing to help people wanting to legally own firearms are a disgrace. People's livelihoods may depend on it.
ollie989898
Member
Can someone tell me, how many crimes were committed last year with legally owned firearms/shotguns and how many suicides?
fermerboy
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- Location
- Banffshire
I had my licences renewed just before New year.
Police Scotland insist that a "marker" is added to your medical records to say that you own or have access to firearms. This allows any doctor etc to see that you have guns if you end up being treated for depression etc.
There is no check of your records as such for your application, just the adding of this bit of info to the medical file.
You are asked on the form if you agree to this, but if you don't they wont progress it, so its not a question really.
My GP surgery took £45 to do their bit, compared to some its not too bad. Covid meant there was no visit/inspection so it was fairly painless otherwise.
Police Scotland insist that a "marker" is added to your medical records to say that you own or have access to firearms. This allows any doctor etc to see that you have guns if you end up being treated for depression etc.
There is no check of your records as such for your application, just the adding of this bit of info to the medical file.
You are asked on the form if you agree to this, but if you don't they wont progress it, so its not a question really.
My GP surgery took £45 to do their bit, compared to some its not too bad. Covid meant there was no visit/inspection so it was fairly painless otherwise.
puntabrava
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- Location
- Wiltshire
Mine has all been renewed. The doctors sent a second letter requesting payment or to tell them I am not going to pay, I informed them the latter and that seems to be itThanks Dave, makes me feel better. I have done nothing, will see what happens.
puntabrava
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- Location
- Wiltshire
The police did ring wanting to chat about a reported incident.
I bought and paid upfront for 50 round bales of hay (£800) a few years ago when there was a spring drought from some farmers at Longleat that are similar to ditch, whenever I wanted to collect it was inconvenient and so I got some round bale silage off him, the rats had been into it and some bales were muck, I sent him three photos of the bales by text on two different occasions and I had a phone call from the police saying he had reported me for harassment.
Shows how easy it is to possibly be refused a firearm certificate
I bought and paid upfront for 50 round bales of hay (£800) a few years ago when there was a spring drought from some farmers at Longleat that are similar to ditch, whenever I wanted to collect it was inconvenient and so I got some round bale silage off him, the rats had been into it and some bales were muck, I sent him three photos of the bales by text on two different occasions and I had a phone call from the police saying he had reported me for harassment.
Shows how easy it is to possibly be refused a firearm certificate
ollie989898
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The police did ring wanting to chat about a reported incident.
I bought and paid upfront for 50 round bales of hay (£800) a few years ago when there was a spring drought from some farmers at Longleat that are similar to ditch, whenever I wanted to collect it was inconvenient and so I got some round bale silage off him, the rats had been into it and some bales were muck, I sent him three photos of the bales by text on two different occasions and I had a phone call from the police saying he had reported me for harassment.
Shows how easy it is to possibly be refused a firearm certificate
The plot thickens... know a lot of people in that area.