Assuming that you have your RPAL and are able to purchase restricted firearms, the following info will most likely apply (depending on how the Alberta CFO operates). If you purchase a restricted firearm from a dealer, he'll handle all the leg work and advise you when your ATT is available allowing you to take your new toy home. Private sales are different. Call the CFO in your province to arrange for the transfer of the firearm to whomever you sold it to. Make sure you've got his/her RPAL number before proceeding. For more info, click on the 'search' button located in the middle at the top of this thread.
Purchasing a restricted firearm?
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Assuming that you have your RPAL and are able to purchase restricted firearms, the following info will most likely apply (depending on how the Alberta CFO operates). If you purchase a restricted firearm from a dealer, he'll handle all the leg work and advise you when your ATT is available allowing you to take your new toy home. Private sales are different. Call the CFO in your province to arrange for the transfer of the firearm to whomever you sold it to. Make sure you've got his/her RPAL number before proceeding. For more info, click on the 'search' button located in the middle at the top of this thread.
Congrats, you'll have fun. You sound like I did just after buying my M&P 9mm, actually!
As for a non-restricted option?? Yeah, you can't go wrong with something Russian - SKS, Mosin, SVT... Get one with a good bore and in decent condition, and it'll outlast all of us.
An occasional bit of oil on the moving bits, normal cleaning routines and a good boiling water flush after shooting corrosive ammo are all you need.
I'm from Alberta as well (Edmonton) and would like to know. I just registered to take the RPAL course at a local gun club (Phoenix) but it won't be until January 2014. I've been doing some reading and read somewhere in the RCMP website (under Canadian Firearms Program) that to buy a restricted fiream, you have to provide 1 of 2 reasons, a. target shooting, b. collector. If you buy for target shooting, then they say that you have to be a member of a gun club because that's the only place you can do target shooting. But that doesn't make sense to me that they would require a membership because there are gun clubs here that allow day passes.
Don't look for it to make sense. The CFO's rarely do anything logically, and for some reason they get to operate more or less outside the law - you require a membership because they insist on it, not because it's actually a sensible requirement.
