Sigh...made a purchase March 25. Still waiting. Ironic....wasn't for the quarantine I'd never have been bored enough to get around to buying one, but at same time it's causing this crazy delay.
When it says "new restricted", what do you guys mean? I had a few restricted firearms up until about 8 years ago, then sold everything and continued renewing my license. Now I have more time and I'm getting back into the hobby and ordered one in April. Am I in the position of waiting for a "new restricted", or not?
Was told my transfer is now with the registry in Ottawa. This is now at 8 weeks, and was for a firearm that is now prohibited.
Yesterday I was told they were working on transfers from March 18 which will put probably mean my transfer will take 8 weeks. They apparently are not working from home like most of the provincial government. As long as the ranges are closed I guess it doesnt matter as much... but still. Even when it was BC (before covid) the transfer times were bad. The last one I did I contacted the ombudsmen, CFO and my MPP at the 5 week mark. I had 3 transfers in process at the time. I was told they would do them 1 by 1 but magically they were all completed together. Not sure that would work right now.
The Ombudsmen and the CFO stated they are aware that the transfer times are not acceptable. As far as I can tell nothing has changed. Maybe if the ombudsmen gets 1000s of complaints maybe something will change... but I do suspect that nothing will matter until people are fully back at work. By the sounds of things here in Ontario that may be a while from now. I certainly dont expect to be back in the office for a while. Maybe 2021 will be the year of reasonable transfer times in Ontario??
If you want to know how much you'll be missed when you are gone, put your finger in a bucket of water and then remove it. The hole that's left will be how much you are missed.
Was told on April 29 they were on march15th tranfers 2 weeks to get 3 days nice, was waiting for mine march 26th and delayed buying an upper for my first build until it cleared, frustrating should have had it long before the may 1st bs