A firearm deal­er and three long-stand­ing firearm user's li­cence (FUL) hold­ers have scored a ma­jor vic­to­ry in their law­suit over a new process for the re­new­al of FULs.

De­liv­er­ing a judg­ment yes­ter­day, High Court Judge Ricky Rahim ruled that the new pro­ce­dure in­tro­duced by now-sus­pend­ed po­lice com­mis­sion­er Er­la Hare­wood-Christo­pher in De­cem­ber 2023, could not ap­ply to cit­i­zens, who were grant­ed FULs be­fore the Firearms Act was passed by Par­lia­ment in 2004.

The out­come of the case brought by busi­ness­man Toweek Ali, of the Firearms Train­ing In­sti­tute, and a group of FUL hold­ers, is al­so ex­pect­ed to af­fect thou­sands of FUL hold­ers who were not in­volved in the lit­i­ga­tion.