Firearms application checklist

Before posting your application form please check it against this list to ensure it has been completed fully and accurately:

Your personal details are completed
Convictions (if any) entered
GP details completed and signed
Total firearms required to be possessed (including existing permissions)
Good reason to possess/acquire firearms shown (firearm certificates only)
Details of where firearms are to be used (firearm certificates only)
Security section fully completed
Does counter signatory meet required status?
Has your counter signatory and/or referees known you for 2 years minimum?
Referee forms given to referees to complete (firearm certificate only)
If a shooting club member; is one of your referees a club official?
Photographs (shotgun) 4 passport sized - one signed by you, one by your counter signatory
Photographs (firearm) 4 passport sized - referees to endorse and sign one photo each, one to be signed by you.
Photographs (coterminous) 8 passport sized - to be endorsed and signed as above for shotgun/ firearm photographs
Additional sheets (land permission, club letter etc.) signed and dated
Certificate (firearm only) included
Cheque or postal orders for correct fee included and made payable to Lancashire Police Authority
If you are applying for a coterminous application, have you completed both a firearm and shotgun application form with all the details above?
Remember - scanned photographs are not acceptable
Postage. Have you put enough postage on? It can take up to 4 weeks to be returned to you by the Post Office if undelivered!