UK:Jacking up firearms fees 76% will cost SMEs £3.5 MILLION
(SME means small to medium enterprises)
Firearm certificates which are needed in the UK to possess, buy or acquire a firearm or shotgun (and ammo) will go up 76% according to the article. In addition this will affect dealers, gamekeepers and vets.
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2014/11/29/firearm_shotgun_fee_hike_1million_pound_cost_business/
"The Home Office has admitted that police plans to force a 76 per cent hike in the cost of a firearm certificate will cost firearms dealers alone £700,000, with gamekeepers and vets being smacked with a further £2.8m in government-imposed fees.
A consultation on the proposed increase in firearms fees, issued earlier this week, reveals the cost to businesses of the police campaign to jack up the fees payable for a firearm or shotgun certificate."
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What is a Firearms Certificate?
"You need a firearms certificate issued by the police to possess, buy or acquire a firearm or shotgun. You must also have a certificate to buy ammunition."
Source: https://www.gov.uk/shotgun-and-firearm-certificates
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(SME means small to medium enterprises)
Firearm certificates which are needed in the UK to possess, buy or acquire a firearm or shotgun (and ammo) will go up 76% according to the article. In addition this will affect dealers, gamekeepers and vets.
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2014/11/29/firearm_shotgun_fee_hike_1million_pound_cost_business/
"The Home Office has admitted that police plans to force a 76 per cent hike in the cost of a firearm certificate will cost firearms dealers alone £700,000, with gamekeepers and vets being smacked with a further £2.8m in government-imposed fees.
A consultation on the proposed increase in firearms fees, issued earlier this week, reveals the cost to businesses of the police campaign to jack up the fees payable for a firearm or shotgun certificate."
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What is a Firearms Certificate?
"You need a firearms certificate issued by the police to possess, buy or acquire a firearm or shotgun. You must also have a certificate to buy ammunition."
Source: https://www.gov.uk/shotgun-and-firearm-certificates
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