The Minister for Justice Equality and Law Reform, Mr. Dermot Ahern has outlined new proposals to seriously curtail the licensing of handguns in the state. The full text of his announcement can be found here.
The NTSA has no further details on how exactly this new regime will be implemented, but wish to point to the following paragraph in the Minister's statement "The Minister is prepared to make very limited exceptions in relation to Olympic sports only." Until we have further information, we are advising our members not to initiate any license applications for the present.
The Minister has also specified that radical tightening of the procedures for licensing handguns will be adopted and we assume that these will also apply to our members when they are published. We will advise you should any further details become available.
Friday, 21 November 2008
Request for EoI's for Intershoot Feb 09
Written by Geoff Cooney
Wednesday, 10 September 2008
The 2009 Intershoot Match is being held in The Hague, from the 4th to the 7th of February 09.It is the wishes of the NTSA to have a team compete at this event.To this end shooters are invited to submit an expression of interest in attending to the committee of the NTSA before the 20th of Sept. 08.
Following receipt of this expression of interest, those intending to participate will be required both to submit to the NTSA a detailed training schedule with goals covering the period up the competition and to achieve a minimum qualifying score at a qualifying match to be held concurrently with the DURC Open in UCD on 9th of November 2008. The qualifying scores for this match are as follows:
AP60 550
AP60 JM537
AP40356
AP40 JW353
AR60577
AR60 JM569
AR40385
AR40 JW378
Please note competitors wishing to participate must fulfil these requirements.
Candidates must also ensure that they are members of the NTSA and are eligible to represent Ireland as per IOC rules and Juniors are under 21 years of age on the 31st of Dec 09.
If you require further information please contact the Committee of the NTSA.
Friday, 21 November 2008
