by BigKev74 » 20 Mar 2020, 12:09 am
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.