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Let's get the right changes to tighten firearms licensing

Minister tells Police Oracle readers about Home Office consultation to ensure officers apply consistent checks to applicants' medical records.

In the wrong hands: Just one unfit applicant has to slip through the net for the consequences to be potentially catastrophic

In the wrong hands: Just one unfit applicant has to slip through the net for the consequences to be potentially catastrophic

Date - 23rd July 2019
By - Policing Minister Nick Hurd
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Today the Home Office begins consulting on new statutory guidance for the police on their responsibilities for considering firearms and shotgun licence applications. We have listened to the police, medical practitioners and shooting groups and it...
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