Bela-Bela DFO?
Posted: Mon Jan 20, 2025 9:14 am
Doing this in English as some might find it easier to understand, and I need all the help I can get.
So a while back I applied for a renewal for my Sec13 firearm. This was BEFORE my competency cert expired, so I knew I needed to renew that as well.
A few weeks passed and I had another renewal I had to hand in, this time a Sec16 for my .303 hunting rifle. I visited the station where I stayed at the time 3 times, and each time I had to leave without being helped and I could not hand it in. Once they were all on leave, once they were closed early due to a work function or something like that, and once the whole office was off sick.
This led to my competency expiring, as well as the licence on my Sec 16 rifle. I'm not too worried about the rifle since I don't really use it, but my Sec13 license seem to have been held up by it now. Now the time for the problem:
I've kind of forgotten to enquire and all that, and to my shock I noticed over the weekend that the application was handed in in March 2022 already. That means it's 3 years ago, and I highly doubt something can be done about it now.
So I need to renew my competency, and I have no idea what I must do about the Sec 13, or the expired Sec 16 now. I have to do this ASAP as I have to hand in a new Sec 16 application as well.
Can I do it all together, and what would the process be? New applications for all of them? Does anyone know the Bela-Bela DFO who can give me some advice? Any tips or something I should think of before/while applying?
I'm still carrying my Sec 13, for obvious reasons, and I still have the paid proof that I applied for the renewal, and the renewal has not been rejected yet, so I am in a bit of an unknown for myself here.
So a while back I applied for a renewal for my Sec13 firearm. This was BEFORE my competency cert expired, so I knew I needed to renew that as well.
A few weeks passed and I had another renewal I had to hand in, this time a Sec16 for my .303 hunting rifle. I visited the station where I stayed at the time 3 times, and each time I had to leave without being helped and I could not hand it in. Once they were all on leave, once they were closed early due to a work function or something like that, and once the whole office was off sick.
This led to my competency expiring, as well as the licence on my Sec 16 rifle. I'm not too worried about the rifle since I don't really use it, but my Sec13 license seem to have been held up by it now. Now the time for the problem:
I've kind of forgotten to enquire and all that, and to my shock I noticed over the weekend that the application was handed in in March 2022 already. That means it's 3 years ago, and I highly doubt something can be done about it now.
So I need to renew my competency, and I have no idea what I must do about the Sec 13, or the expired Sec 16 now. I have to do this ASAP as I have to hand in a new Sec 16 application as well.
Can I do it all together, and what would the process be? New applications for all of them? Does anyone know the Bela-Bela DFO who can give me some advice? Any tips or something I should think of before/while applying?
I'm still carrying my Sec 13, for obvious reasons, and I still have the paid proof that I applied for the renewal, and the renewal has not been rejected yet, so I am in a bit of an unknown for myself here.