I believe you are correct. Weren't the FAC's back then issued by the local police station?
question for FAC holders.
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I believe you are correct. Weren't the FAC's back then issued by the local police station?
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- Somewhere on the Hudson Bay Coast
No, they were a federal deal, just like the PAL.
We had Rudy at the police station on Hartford in the basement. He was actually a pretty nice guy, a bit grumpy I guess from being stuck in the basement all day. Then came Cooper. He was a bit of a ####. He was the one that enforced the proper procedure for registering. I still have a copy of the letter yhe RCMP sent out saying the local PD's all had to follow the correct procedure. '91 I believe.
Bought handgun after showing valid FAC at the store or from another person, in person, or via mail from an ad in a paper like "The Gun Runner" [remember pre Internet days]. If you bought it local you took the receipt to your local police. Some grumpy old guy on the police desk or in the property office, typed out a form on a typewriter [no PC or work processors back then]. The form had a bunch of copies separated by carbon paper. He gave you the yellow copy to take back to the store which you showed them that you had started the regs process. They gave you the handgun.
No transport regs in the early days. No trigger locks. No locked containers. So sometimes they just put it in the factory cardboard box if available or even just a paper bag. You took it back to the police station where the grumpy old guy looked it over to make sure it was what was written on the yellow paper. The yellow paper then served as your "temp registration" until your "green slip" arrived. You then took it home [or in most cases right out to the range to try out]. A few weeks later you got the registration certificated in the mail [from the RCMP in Ottawa] which was printed on green paper, hence the term "green slip". That's my recollection on it. Usually no waiting.
Would sometimes buy a handgun in the am at a store. Try it out at the range around noon after the paper work in & yellow copy in hand. Decided it wasn't for me. Had it back to the store by later in the afternoon & traded for something else. Knew of one long barreled wheelgun in .357 Mag that traded hands 3 times in the same week. No wonder the old guy at the police station that had to pound out the paperwork each time on an old typewriter was "grumpy"....lol.... One downside was they only did regs at the local police station during the weekdays. So, if you bought on a weekend you had to wait until following week to register & legally take possession.
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Just dug mine out of my old paper drawer. Also from the Basement on Hartford. Issued in 90, signed by officer D. Boutan of Firearms Control Unit - Winnipeg Police Dept, who I remember being pleasant, and easy to deal with.
Federal law but issued by Firearms Control Unit of Local police. In Winnipeg, that was District 3, (Hartford) So no matter where you lived in the city you had to go to District 3 station to obtain your FAC
The first FAC's were issued by local RCMP and cost $10 and no testing or qualifying whatever. Just fill out the form, pay your $10. It was a liberal joke to start us on the path...
The good old days!
I was working at Robinson's Sporting Goods back in the 80's here in Victoria. At that time we had a customer who wanted a particular handgun that we could not find at the local suppliers. I told the owner I could probably get one from a supplier I dealt with on a personal level in the US. He said to try. A week later in my mailbox on the street in front of my house it arrived. I took it to the store and it was entered into the system, sold and registered..
The normal procedure for buying, registering a restricted firearm back then has been posted already... I will just add that in the 80's and working in Victoria we sold a handgun to a fellow, gave him the receipt, he went to the police department and got a permit allowing him to pick it up, signed into our records as picking it up... and then disappeared without going back to the police to register it... I believe that was the start of a different procedure here in BC.
The good old days!
I was working at Robinson's Sporting Goods back in the 80's here in Victoria. At that time we had a customer who wanted a particular handgun that we could not find at the local suppliers. I told the owner I could probably get one from a supplier I dealt with on a personal level in the US. He said to try. A week later in my mailbox on the street in front of my house it arrived. I took it to the store and it was entered into the system, sold and registered..
The normal procedure for buying, registering a restricted firearm back then has been posted already... I will just add that in the 80's and working in Victoria we sold a handgun to a fellow, gave him the receipt, he went to the police department and got a permit allowing him to pick it up, signed into our records as picking it up... and then disappeared without going back to the police to register it... I believe that was the start of a different procedure here in BC.
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- Location
- Somewhere on the Hudson Bay Coast
I thought mine came in the mail. When I lived in Winnipeg we still dealt with he RCMP on Broadway, and I only recall making one or two visits to Hartford (their filing system was a disaster) and only ever to register a handgun, never to pick up an FAC. But that was a while ago, and I'm told my memory isn't what it used to be.
But typed and issued at the local station.
I remember clearly, just because the Hartford district is the area that I grew up in, I do believe that the actual certificate may have, arrived in the mail but, applied and paid my $10 at Hartford for sure.
