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I've just applied for my first grant, so understand I have to get the full medical cert done. My Dr charges £80 for the pleasure though, which means come renewal time it may actually cost more for the medical cert than it does for the FAC renewal cost 🤣 crazy world.

I'm just about to put my form into my GP, they have it published on their website as £80 without an examination, or £170 with an examination 😬

The home office guidance does have some specific guidance on fixing to 'stud wall' but I know stone is the preferred option. Being in the loft, I think it's effectively secured to what would be a stud wall, just without the plasterboard covering 😬 The loft is relatively easily accessed via a ramsay ladder in a small bathroom, and there's no way the missus would let me leave guns lying about the house with the kids around! I suspect she is stricter than any Firearms officer that might visit 😂

Fingers crossed 🤞 My main concern is that I'll be mounting the cabinet in the loft (all floored and power up there) but there are no solid walls up there so it will be secured to vertical and floor joists using m8 x 70mm coach screws to the floor joist and either same or m8 x 100mm coach bolts to the vertical timbers.

Although I just checked the Police Scotland website, and it looks like I fall under Dundee even though its further away.

I'm technically perthshire, but I believe it would be applied for through Glenrothes police as the closest one. Thanks for the replies everyone. I actually managed to pick up a 3 gun cabinet on marketplace today pretty cheap.

These seem awful cheap... just wondering if anyone has bought one or had a license renewal recently with one? I'm in the market, and wondering if one of these will suffice for FAC in Scotland. https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/380897168616?mkcid=16&mkevt=1&mkrid=711-127632-2357-0&ssspo=vHy21yaLRSi&sssrc=4429486&ssuid=oa8lin4oTEC&var=&widget_ver=artemis&media=COPY

Sorry, tidied up original post. It's called an air weapons certificate, but the application form is called an AWL1.

Hi folks, being new to this group and fairly new to shooting, I have a stack of questions for you all! But I would like to start with license/certificate applications (I am based in Scotland) I have been a member of the local target shooting club for around 6 weeks now, only shooting air rifle so far. I plan on applying for my AWC as soon as I have a suitable cabinet to keep an air rifle in. Most of the other members are all shooting .22LR, which I also find appealing. This is tempting me to apply for the FAC at the same time as the AWC, reasons for both will be initially shooting at the club but hoping to get a land permission in the near future to also shoot in the field. Some of the members of the club indicated that it would be better to just apply for everything at once, including SGC. I have done a little clay pigeon in the past and would like to get this at some point but don't yet have a permission for any land. Is there any issue with applying for all 3 at once as someone who has never held any of these before? Thanks in advance

Thanks everyone 😀

Hi folks, I've been browsing the site for a while now and picked up lots of useful information, finally joined the group to interact. It's been a good few years since I used an air rifle with any sort of regularity, but joined a local target shooting club this year and enjoying it. I'll soon be sending off my AWL application so I can hopefully buy my own rifle rather than keep using the club ones, and maybe get back out in the field now and again. Looking forward to being part of the group 😀 Cheers, Dave.