Thread: Firearm licencing

I’ve just gone through the process for new licence in Northland took 5 weeks just waiting on licence in mail.

Friday- Clean application no convictions and uploaded everything digitally.
Monday - Received registration for MSC. Signed up to the last spot available 5 minutes later.
Saturday - MSC course
4 weeks later - Interviews and job done.

Vetter was good for a yarn and quite common sense even gave a bunch of tips. Questions were pretty limited as referee and wife answered most of it. He said renewals were backlogged and took priority but now they’re caught up (or closer to) things should move a bit quicker. He said delays also happen depending on workload and location of interviews etc as in his example he’s covering 3 positions across Northland due to staffing issues. He also said if it’s a clean application where everything is present and correct it makes a big difference.