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    Quote Originally Posted by STC View Post
    out of curiosity, what questions did you ask? and what were the responses?

    Have you tried asking the same questions to other parties? also just out of curiosity...
    I gave my thoughts on basically all the bullet points they listed, some just whether I agreed or not other more depth.

    They responded in detail about how the changes they plan to make to try get the courts to actually punish criminals, sound like they really want to make some changes here.

    Most of my reply was around the response was around the "Enhanced Licence". Sound like they hope to massively simplify the system, doing away with P cat and possibly even C and B, rolling them all into one with E cat back.

    Looks like if you had the Enhanced licence it wouldn't come with conditions, so if you got it as part of a service rifle club you could also do pest control.

    I didn't ask questions so much as just gave my thoughts.

    I probably won't bother asking other parties there views.
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    I know the team at ACT work really hard on answering correspondence personally rather than auto-generated messages like other parties. However, I imagine they are getting a lot of feedback on this issue and it may take a while to get a response due to the quantity of emails received?
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    If you read the full length policy document (not assuming you haven't) you will notice that pistol and collectors endorsements will be retained under the umbrella of the enhanced licence system. Effectively, the enhanced licence would be for centrefire semi automatics, and the collectors and pistol endorsements would be an additional measure on top of that.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Beetroot View Post
    Most of my reply was around the response was around the "Enhanced Licence". Sound like they hope to massively simplify the system, doing away with P cat and possibly even C and B, rolling them all into one with E cat back.

    Looks like if you had the Enhanced licence it wouldn't come with conditions, so if you got it as part of a service rifle club you could also do pest control.

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    Wow. This means they want to bring back E cat as it was, not just a slightly widened P endorsement as I was expecting. It's hard to imagine much buy in to that idea from the anti-gun nutters (both public and MPs). Given the large number of people who used E cat and also those who were happy to use semi autos on A cat, I'd expect 100,000 applications for the new category in the first year. This will get interesting.
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