Land passing for FAC

[Mark-70]

Who do you chaps call to check if the land offered to you is cleared for the calibre you wish to use? I obviously have a closed ticket, do I call my FEO although the land is under a different FEO to mine, or should I just call my licensing authority which is Middlemoor Exeter?

[Bowen20]

You will have to phone your own firearms licensing department and ask them about the particular piece of land you have acquired. If it's already been cleared they should tell you over the phone. If not then they will have to send a FLO out to view the land and pass it for what he seems suitable to be used on that bit of land. If however the land Is in a different county to yours then you will still have to ask your firearms department about the land being passed and they will have to contact the department which is in that county and ask them to do a land check you can't go direct to that department because they won't tell you due to the data protection act which is what I got told when I was in this exact situation. And just totally by-pass your FLO and contact your department directly saves more time and miss communication in the long run. And keep checking on their progression because if they aren't poked and prodded they tend to drag their heels.

[stokie]

Just ring your own firearms department to ask if its cleared . All the land is now listed on the national database .So they can tell you. If it needs to be passed ask them for a land clearance form and send it back to them and they will pass it onto the relavant authority

[Mark-70]

So basically just ring the authority who issued the ticket, if passed all well and good if not they will contact the field officer for that area and get them to check it.

The land in question is actually my parents and the field officer was there a couple of weeks ago to do an SGC application, all went well and he was asked about the land and said he would check but thought it would be ok, but we haven't heard anything.

That's why I'm unsure wether to phone the field officer as he said he would check it, or bypass him and see what the main authority can tell me.

[Dave-G]

So basically just ring the authority who issued the ticket, if passed all well and good if not they will contact the field officer for that area and get them to check it.

The land in question is actually my parents and the field officer was there a couple of weeks ago to do an SGC application, all went well and he was asked about the land and said he would check but thought it would be ok, but we haven't heard anything.

That's why I'm unsure wether to phone the field officer as he said he would check it, or bypass him and see what the main authority can tell me.

 

If you'd related this in the first post you would probably have totally different replies. As you have already asked your FEO it would be common sense and courtesy to follow it up.