Police to allow gun users renew licences with iPhone app

[oneshooter]

A police force plans to allow gun owners to apply to update their firearms licences using an application on Apple's iPhone.

Sussex Police is designing a series of 'apps' which will let members of the public access news, appeals and other services at the touch of a button.
The force proposes allowing people to make requests to renew shotgun and firearm licences with a new iPhone app as part of a £3m cost-cutting drive. The applicant would then be visited by officers in person.
Gun control campaigners accused police of putting money before lives and urged the force to abandon the scheme.
Details of the plans emerged just two weeks after Derrick Bird, 52, went on a shooting spree in Cumbria with two guns he legally owned and killed 12 people.
Campaigners have demanded stringent and regular mental health checks on all shotgun and firearm licence holders following the shootings

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/ ... e-app.html

Makes me damn glad I live in Texas!

Oneshooter
Livin in Texas

[Tom-May]

"...Campaigners have demanded stringent and regular mental health checks on all shotgun and firearm licence holders following the shootings..."

Isn't it strange that these same 'campaigners' never apply the same standards to the far more deadly motor car - could it be because they actually own cars themselves?

Cynical? Who Me?

[The Virginian]

How nice the "agents" of Her Majesty let the "serfs" renew a God given inalienable right to bear arms....man I hope we don't get more of this on our shores.