Po­lice Com­mis­sion­er Al­lis­ter Gue­var­ro is urg­ing ap­pli­cants for firearm user’s li­cences (FULs) to be pa­tient as the nec­es­sary back­ground checks, in­ves­ti­ga­tions and process­es are com­plet­ed, not­ing that while they are free to ap­ply for a per­mit, they are not en­ti­tled to au­to­mat­i­cal­ly re­ceive one.

Gue­var­ro made the re­marks while re­spond­ing to ques­tions from par­tic­i­pants dur­ing the open floor ses­sion at Con­ver­sa­tions with the Com­mis­sion­er, a fo­rum host­ed by the T&T Cham­ber of Com­merce yes­ter­day.

He not­ed that mech­a­nisms were struc­tured to en­sure the FULs were is­sued to peo­ple who were in need of them the most, while al­so ob­serv­ing se­cu­ri­ty pro­to­cols to min­imise the pos­si­bil­i­ty of the weapons be­ing mis­used.