Roadto22LR wrote:FYI, this is my timeline
- 5th September - Completed the Firearm Safety Course
- 9th September - Received Certificate and applied for licence
- 19th January - Status on FAR website changed to "REFERRED TO SERVICE NSW FOR ISSUE"
- 28th January - Received letter in post box from NSW Police instructing to get a photo at any SERVICE NSW branch
- 30th January - Had photo taken at SERVICE NSW Branch
- 03rd February - Applied for PTA
- 05th February - Licence received in the mail
- 04th March - PTA Approved & Issued
~10-15th March - Should get PTAs in the mail and then go to the dealer..
7.5 months total
Roadto22LR wrote:FYI, this is my timeline
- 5th September - Completed the Firearm Safety Course
- 9th September - Received Certificate and applied for licence
- 19th January - Status on FAR website changed to "REFERRED TO SERVICE NSW FOR ISSUE"
- 28th January - Received letter in post box from NSW Police instructing to get a photo at any SERVICE NSW branch
- 30th January - Had photo taken at SERVICE NSW Branch
- 03rd February - Applied for PTA
- 05th February - Licence received in the mail
- 04th March - PTA Approved & Issued
~10-15th March - Should get PTAs in the mail and then go to the dealer..
7.5 months total
themarksman wrote:Thanks for the update. We appreciate knowing there is light at the end of the tunnel. You are sooo close now!
P.S. I calculate that as 6 months total time 5 Sept -> 10 March (6 months)
Roadto22LR wrote:
Thanks for the pickup! Yes 6 months... just feels like 7 months.,
Update. My PTAs arrived in the post today 09th March.
Heading to the dealer on Friday arvo to collect my 22LR (CZ 452!), off to the bush next weekend to try it out.
The longest part is waiting for that licence to get approved. Getting photo taken, waiting for licence card time is fine.
The PTA process is pretty reasonable too (28 days cooling off, postage time etc).
MrsAcko wrote:It must have progressed past October now, Application date was 8/01/2020 and yesterday it changed to referred to service nsw!
maybe the had lower applications over the back end of the year? Either way that's great news much better than 5 months!MrsAcko wrote:It must have progressed past October now, Application date was 8/01/2020 and yesterday it changed to referred to service nsw!
Fulcrum wrote:That’s strange, are you cat a/b or cat h? I applied for cat a/b on 05/01/2020 and it’s still on “NEW APPLICATION IN PROGRESS -NOT AUTHORISED FOR FIREARMS”
Fulcrum wrote:I called them this morning and they said they’re still doing first week of October...
themarksman wrote:I saw this email today. Allegedly they are now up to 20th October 2019
themarksman wrote:I find it highly doubtful that someone that applied 05/01/2020 has been Referred to Service NSW already. That sounds like a bit of a s**t stir.
I think when you talk to the Services NSW staff they just tell you a month or where they think they are up to. When you actually talk to the real Firearms Registry they seem to give you more specific dates.
themarksman wrote:I find it highly doubtful that someone that applied 05/01/2020 has been Referred to Service NSW already. That sounds like a bit of a s**t stir.
I think when you talk to the Services NSW staff they just tell you a month or where they think they are up to. When you actually talk to the real Firearms Registry they seem to give you more specific dates.
MrsAcko wrote:Highly doubtful? Guess I’m just lucky...
My husband applied the day after me and he is still waiting as well..
.22lover wrote:Well bugger. I applied for my licence on the 11th November 2019. Still waiting for it to be approved.
I guess it's luck of the draw these days as to when it gets processed...hopefully there's some progress soon for all of us still waiting☺.
.22lover wrote:Well bugger. I applied for my licence on the 11th November 2019. Still waiting for it to be approved.
I guess it's luck of the draw these days as to when it gets processed...hopefully there's some progress soon for all of us still waiting☺.
BigKev74 wrote:Hey everyone,
Just fired first rounds through my new rifle the other day. This is for a primary production ABC.
- Applied 1st or 2nd of September, pretty much right after doing the safety course and getting my certificate.
- A couple weeks later I got a letter giving me my firearms licence number, which allowed me to check its status online.
- Nothing happened until around the 11th of January where it was then actually referred to service NSW.
- A couple weeks later it was approved and I got a letter saying I had to go to Service NSW to get my photo taken. I did that the day I got it in the mail haha.
- Then I waited another couple weeks until I got my licence in the mail. Probably somewhere around 15 or 20th of Feb.
- Put in my PTA as soon as I got the licence in hand, that took another 35 days roughly. (Cat B Rifle)
- I ordered a rifle and had it delivered to my local dealer. (As you'd imagine this was the fastest part of the process haha!)
- Picked it up a couple days ago and shot a few rounds through it.
So all up, around 6.5 months from application to being able to actually shoot on my property.
I originally just got a rifle for culling some rabbits and foxes that have been destroying the property a bit, but I think I might try and join a club for fun, get me out and socialising haha. So I suppose I'll give you wait times on having additional genuine reasons added soon aswell.
Ziege wrote:Not NSW, but word on the street to n WA that there has been close to 1400% increase in new gun sales over the last fortnight with applications quickly approaching 6 month wait territory, but the flood hasn't ended as the majority of new gun buyers haven't got safes yet and all the gun stores have or nearly have sold out. So will be interesting to see what goes down