Why dose it take so long for the C.F.O. To approve the transfer of a restricted gun

enefgee said:
I see 2 possible answers, either one could be correct - feel free to pick the one you see as the most accurate:

1) The office is understaffed and has a large number of long term staff who have accumulated long vacation entitlements, they work as fast as they possibly can within the mandate for public safety, but there are times when a delay is unavoidable.

2) They're a bunch of anti-gun bureaucrats, who are not only riding the gravy train for all it's worth, they're doing it so damned slowly that if it gets any worse they'll actually be moving backwards. The only way some of these illigitimate offspring will see an application to transfer is if it gets glued to the water cooler.
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There is one more possibility. The people that they have hired are not capable or smart enough to do the job.

Graydog
 
The general public would be horrified to find out that the CFO's are doing everything in their power to get all the newly imported guns in the hands of gun owners as fast as possible instead of tranferring ones already here.
 
I bought a prohib privately just over a week ago. Transfer began last Monday and it got promptly kicked to the registrar (cfc) they do this supposedly randomly for something to do apparantly. I still had approval within 5 days
 
I don't know about the laziness complaints. To be honest, most of the people who work in those offices are usually polite, helpful, and I imagine they are flooded with work to do. I doubt it is the common people who are working there who are making things move slowly--I'd imagine it's a bottleneck with the higher-ups. Maybe it's because those in positions of power are too busy dreaming up arbitrary conditions for ATTs to conduct the rest of their business.

In the end, I guess all I'm saying is when you call or whatever, don't take it out on the person answering the phone and they're probably not the ones creating the issues. I don't know much about the people who work in those offices (if somebody does, please do tell), but we do know their higher-ups are exactly the kind of anti-gun bureaucrats we've been referencing in this thread, and the only way to push them into action is official channels like the Ombudsman.
 
I don't have a problem with the people at the staff level, they are generally helpful, and competent. Where it gets to be a problems is at the senior level, who are being pressured at the level of the Attorney General's office to make things tough on restricted firearm owners. Then there is also the tendency of senior civil servants to expand their empire to generate more importance, staff and budget. If they assigned less time to researching who might have expired firearm licences or firearms that didn't get changed over from the old green card system to sic the Guns and Gangs squad on they could push paper a lot faster. Also, I am sure there is an attitude of PUSH BACK in the upper echelons so that when they get ordered by the courts to issue ATT's or lose courdt cases, they look for ways to "get even". That is why the current foolishness in ON and NB to have advance invitation to guest at gun clubs.
 
There are always 2 major classifications of people who work in any government office. There are Civil Servants - these people go to work, do their best and generally get nowhere for their efforts. Then there are Government Employees, who work the system, do as little as humanly possible and get promoted out of the way for their ineptitude. The second group wastes money, enjoys their entitlements and derives great pleasure from making other people's life miserable.
 
I bought a pistol on Sunday from a retailer, called the CFC and was told it would be complete by the end of next week at the latest. We'll see how accurate that prediction is. On a positive note, the salesman said he noticed they've been getting faster in the last couple weeks.
 
I wonder if the process has been altered?

I usually receive a transfer notification/ATT in a timely fashion and then a goodly delay before the actual registration certificate shows up.

This time around was the typical long wait for the certificate but without prior transfer notification to either buyer or seller.

R
 
johNTO said:
I haven't requested a private transfer for sometime now but my last 2 restricteds from Dealers took 2 business days to go through respectively....and yes I'm in Ontario.
I'll pay the extra few bucks to buy from a Dealer (and get my restricted faster) unless I see a screaming private deal.
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I just signed up for a private deal and checked with the Ontario CFO on the wait time....4-6wks.....fantastic!
 
johNTO said:
I just signed up for a private deal and checked with the Ontario CFO on the wait time....4-6wks.....fantastic!
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I am in the same boat, I was told on Tuesday it would be 6 weeks from the CFO in Ontario. I just cannot see any reason this would take 6 weeks. If it was the private sector you would hire more people to get the job done quicker.
 
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