Thread: FIREARMS LICENCE RENEWAL UPDATE

Originally Posted by dannyb

I'm pretty sure a new license is only 5 years, a renewal is still 10 years from what I understand.

That's correct. The renewal of the 5 year licence will then revert to 10 years thereafter, unless the legislation gets changed of course, which is possible. The logic given for the 5 year licence for newbies is that most firearms offences are committed by a licence holder within the first 5 years.