Mr. Nicholas Flood:

Especially where short firearms are concerned, doing some form of ballistic checking would be welcome. It is most likely that we would all be very happy with that. The matter could be discussed later.

In terms of a centralised system, the difficulty with chief superintendents and superintendents who are making decisions on areas on which they are not necessarily completely and utterly au fait, is that it can cause a little bit of apprehension because their job is public safety. A similar system such as that in the UK whereby everything is centralised and the experts are in one particular place and one chief superintendent signs off on everything would make their job so much easier.

As Deputy Farrell said, having a process whereby a group, association, civil servants or the post office can take in an application and move it forward after which it can be signed off by a central committee would make things a lot easier for everybody.