Well to be fair, it only takes a previous partner from several years ago to get their knicker elastic twisted and make a complaint to the Arms Outfit, and the poor firearms licence holder who has done nothing wrong apart from breeding with a questionable individual finds that they have their licence suspended pending revocation. The AO's apparently have 3 months to make a decision on taking the suspension to court to permanently revoke a licence - meanwhile the licence holder has their firearms and ammunition removed from their possession.
Yes, occasionally there are people that for whatever reason quite rightly need to have their licences revoked. But what happens in the event that the complaint is spurious, malicious, or comes from a disgruntled ex who has been trained up by a far too tolerant system on what to say and how to say it to cause the system to turn itself into a weapon they can use to create absolute mayhem? There absolutely needs to be a mechanism for making malicious complaints about licenced firearms owners a chargeable offence with a serious consequence to absolutely preserve the integrity of the system!
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