Sentence:  Recently, people applying for a Permit to Acquire have received a letter back from the Firearms Registry saying they had to submit a Certificate of Inspection of their secure storage, before the application could be processed. This was a new thing, and, in the case of people who already have a firearm, was pretty pointless, since we all had our secure storage inspected in that great state-wide sweep; and unless the applicant's address had changed, there was little point in a new inspection. In any case, I had countless reports of people asking their local police to do a new inspection to go with the <WSD>PTA</WSD> and being told the police were much too busy to do all that again. 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  (nodot=1): a form lodged with the police to aquire a specific firearm; the authorisation subsequently acquired.