I have called them three times now, and each time I got a different answer. I pinned my magazines myself weeks ago with a couple of pop-rivits, before I even knew I was going to be recieving registered mail (Which actually was brought over to my by the tenant that lives in the house on the front of my property. He signed for it... But thats a Canada Post rant.) telling me that I need to.
First call I was told that I needed to send them to a verifier... None in my area I told him. "Gun shop, then." He says. Again, none in my area. "Shooting range." he says. Yep, one in my area. "What am I supposed to do there?" I asked. "Get the verifier to look at it." At the range? What?!? Maybe I go to uncivilized shooting club, but we don't have an ON STAFF verifier. We don't have STAFF period! He seemed oblivious to any problem here, and told me to call him back for a fax number to get the verifier to send it to. Thats right folks... Call him back for the number. I hung up.
Second call (To get the fax number) I got a nice lady who told me to turn them in to North Sylva or the RCMP. Those were my only options. She also implied that I needed to do it soon, before anything "Happened". Did I just get threatened?
Third call I was told that I needed to see a GUNSMITH so that he could re-pin them and then I needed to see a verifier IN PERSON so that he could confirm my ID and send a form off to CFC and Get this: My Local RCMP Detachment!!!!
At this point I started looking for a verifier. Still looking.
So many questions come up, a lot of them have already been voiced except: How do they know how many mags I actually have? Couldn't someone less honest than myself just take the in-box original mag only and put it through this process? It would stop them from checking to see if they had anymore, nyet? Not that the others would not be pinned, just not put through the extra financial outlay.