The law concerning Air rifles in Eire

[Guest wex]

I need some help concerning the laws with air rifles here in eire. I have brought mine and my sons from england, but i was told by a local that i need a licence and would be arrested if seen with the guns. This offence is supposed to carry a heavy fine. I want to get a bit of back ground info before walking in the Garda barracks, just incase i get in to strife. cheers wex. ps the guns aren't modified or suped-up.

[Guest Ditch_Shitter]

Oh boy; Have you f*cked up?! It always pays to check another countries laws before doing things like that. That's why I checked the law. Then left my air rifle with a friend. Then got on the ferry.

 

I'm no expert but, my initial suggestion would be to take those guns to a Gun Dealer and have him lock them up. Then ask his advice.

 

Fact is, you're probably one of hundreds of people who have made the same, quite innocent mistake. I'm sure the Gards have seen it all before and know the craic. You - unfortunately - will probably need an Import licence as well as a gun licence. Gun licence isn't too much trouble. Imports, I've heard, can be a bugger.

 

But a licensed Gun Dealer can doubtless quote ye chapter and verse. Personally? I'd be tempted to find a deep Bog and start from scratch. Could be less hassle all round.

[Guest wex]

Fook that Ditchy they cost too much, i will have to think of a plan

[Guest Ditch_Shitter]

Wex; Please be careful what ye plan, mate. This is another peoples country. It's 'foreign'. You're foreign. Laws here have no bearing and little resemblance to those ye used to.

 

Down side, eg. is that ye'd be damn lucky to ever get a licence for an air pistol because, here, 'a pistol's a pistol's a pistol'. Air gun or .44 Magnum, it's still a hand gun.

 

Same way as ye " perfectly legal limit " air rifles are " Just Air Rifles ". No they're not. Not here, mate. Here they're rifles and no one gives diddly squat about their foot poundage.

 

Up side is that - with a licence - you can go out and buy any air rifle ye find. F*ck the foot poundage. No one asks. Seriously up side is that getting a shell firing rifle licence is relatively easy. So would be getting an air rifle licence. I broke my heart over leaving my nice, new BSA Lightening behind, later to sell it. But now I have a .22 Hornet. No F*cking Way would they have let me have a centre fire in england! I'd never have found permission on land to start with.

 

Here? Being rural, most people I know own small farms and I have more permission than I could possibly walk round in a day and night. Basicly; If I can see it from my cottage? I can wander across and through it carrying my rifle. And I've more round the corner

 

Sorted all this out within a year of washing up. Never would've been this way if I'd been caught trying to flaunt the host countries laws. Would have been horribly different.

 

Be nice

[Guest wex]

Cheers Ditchy, looks like i will be taking the rifles back to blighty when my sister gets hitched next year. In the meantime i will have to keep them under wraps.. cheers wex

[SNAP SHOT 194]

Now if the gun is not too expensive then i would do as ditch suggested and simply bury it in pieces of course......

the other thing is take it into a gun dealer then go to the gardi and explain that you brought it over as a mistake thinking the laws were similar........

or apply for your gun licence, and say its in england with your family and you wish to take it to ireland.....and what then procedure is....

keeping it well hidden until its granted........as the consequences are if caught you will be fined, maybe jail, and never get a gun licence in the state again.......best of luck..............