Update On Ontario Restricted Transfer Times

I just started a new thread to send Doug Ford complaints about our wait time, with the link. I am really trying not to steal anyone's thunder, I really want everyone to bombard Ford with complaints. And this link is on page 226, need something more recent
 
1northernboy said:
I just started a new thread to send Doug Ford complaints about our wait time, with the link. I am really trying not to steal anyone's thunder, I really want everyone to bombard Ford with complaints. And this link is on page 226, need something more recent
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Good thinking! Excellent idea!
 
cbabes said:
Great idea. I'm thinking the Ford thing might help more than the Ombudsman. Thanks for everyone taking action.
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As much as I hate to burst your bubbles I really don't think emailing Ford will do anything. It would be political dynamite for Ford to "speed up the process of the public receiving their firearms faster". I wish I was wrong but this would come back to bite him at some point in his political career. No politician will touch that with the recent mass shootings in the US. Ford is not a dumb man, he's not going to risk damage to his political career (now or in the future) because of emails complaining about wait times.

I love that you're all pro active but I think you're getting your hopes up for nothing unfortunately.

I'm waiting on 2 transfers and have accepted the fact I'll get them when I get them....no sense in driving yourself crazy.
 
TBois said:
As much as I hate to burst your bubbles I really don't think emailing Ford will do anything. It would be political dynamite for Ford to "speed up the process of the public receiving their firearms faster". I wish I was wrong but this would come back to bite him at some point in his political career. No politician will touch that with the recent mass shootings in the US. Ford is not a dumb man, he's not going to risk damage to his political career (now or in the future) because of emails complaining about wait times.

I love that you're all pro active but I think you're getting your hopes up for nothing unfortunately.

I'm waiting on 2 transfers and have accepted the fact I'll get them when I get them....no sense in driving yourself crazy.
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Ford was very vocal about not supporting a handgun ban. Didn't hurt him in the June election.
 
TBois said:
As much as I hate to burst your bubbles I really don't think emailing Ford will do anything. It would be political dynamite for Ford to "speed up the process of the public receiving their firearms faster". I wish I was wrong but this would come back to bite him at some point in his political career. No politician will touch that with the recent mass shootings in the US. Ford is not a dumb man, he's not going to risk damage to his political career (now or in the future) because of emails complaining about wait times.

I love that you're all pro active but I think you're getting your hopes up for nothing unfortunately.

I'm waiting on 2 transfers and have accepted the fact I'll get them when I get them....no sense in driving yourself crazy.
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Your opinion isn't bursting anyone's bubbles.
 
A letter to ford will not hurt and will not hurt him politically. It will likely get passed to the solicitor general who will pass it to his non political deputy minister who will ask for an explanation from the CFO office. That explanation may not get anything more than maybe a greater focus on getting the transfers completed but it most certainly will not hurt.
 
TBois said:
As much as I hate to burst your bubbles I really don't think emailing Ford will do anything. It would be political dynamite for Ford to "speed up the process of the public receiving their firearms faster". I wish I was wrong but this would come back to bite him at some point in his political career. No politician will touch that with the recent mass shootings in the US. Ford is not a dumb man, he's not going to risk damage to his political career (now or in the future) because of emails complaining about wait times.

I love that you're all pro active but I think you're getting your hopes up for nothing unfortunately.

I'm waiting on 2 transfers and have accepted the fact I'll get them when I get them....no sense in driving yourself crazy.
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Sorry to burst your bubble but if we don’t complain nothing will be done.
 
Hrsplit said:
I hear people say that all the time and I’m sure people complain to the ombudsman all the time , yet the situation doesn’t ever improve so clearly he doesn’t give a sh1t or can’t do anything about it , Either way it doesn’t matter
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Maybe coincidence but a number of years ago I complained to the Ombudsman and shorty thereafter transfers sped up significantly for a few months
 
Outlawpilots said:
All we CAN do is complain, so we must, otherwise we give them a free pass to lallygag.
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I've been in the firearms community longer than many of you have been alive (60+ yrs since I purchased my first) and in all those years I've yet to see a politician that would speed up the process of getting firearms into the publics hands.
Just speaking based on experience. It's a political dynamite issue.
Email all you want....my personal opinion is it won't do anything.
Besides, what can they do?
They won't hire people for a temporary influx of transfers.
Ask them to work faster? These are unionized gov't employees...not going to happen.

So what do you think a letter to Ford will actually do? Is he going to go to the CFO and wag his finger to get them to move faster? Of course not.

I realize the waits are long but I'm just glad an immediate ban like the AR's didn't happen so I'll take my wait time. If an immediate ban did happen, you would've said you would be more than happy to wait 2-3 months as long as you got them.

We live in an Amazon service type of world where we want everything the next day, but this situation is a little different.

Don't you have any other firearms you can shoot in the meantime? Or is it because you were brought up in an instant gratification world?

The fact you think 60,000 transfers initiated in 2 weeks shouldn't change service levels kind of says you're unrealistic. People wait longer for organ transplants.

Ask yourself honestly...what can they really do to speed up transfers? Nothing. Its a temporary situation.
 
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