Buying unregistered restricteds

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A neighbour's Aunt has discovered a couple of firearms in her home. Her husband is long gone and these are likely unregistered WWII relics.
What is the procedure to buy and register these?
Is there still an amnesty?
I would hate to see her have to call the cops to pick them up and destroy them.
Any well informed help would be appreciated.
 
If it's not prohibited, it's no problem (I've done it). If it's a prohib it can't be registered. No new prohibs are allowed.
 
Are they long guns or what? If so they just need verified and the verifier can do the entry for you. Then you get the paper work in the mail. I've done this several times and it's no problem. If long barreled handguns the proceedure is supposed to be basicly the same, but I haven't tried it and it might be worth a call to CFO first.
 
Providing the guns are not prohib, you should have no problem. You are in Ontario, so all bets are off. LOL. I have registered some restricted firearms into the system in the past.

Scott
 
Wrong Way said:
Chances are, if they are war bring-backs, they aren't restricted. Unrestricted or prohib covers 99% of anything he was likely to bring back.

Know what they are?
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I havn't seen them yet. Apparently there is 1 rifle and 2 handguns,1 of which is thought to be a Mauser. I'm hoping they are not prohibs.
 
dogzilla said:
If it's not prohibited, it's no problem (I've done it). If it's a prohib it can't be registered. No new prohibs are allowed.
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Really? So if your grandmother has your late grandfather's trophy Luger from the war that was quite valuable, what on earth is she supposed to do with it?
Just turn it on for destruction?
Or the RCMP will slap the cuffs on a 90 year old woman to keep our society safer?
 
I find it hard to believe that they are not registered, handguns registration date back from 1934.
Keep looking trough the deceased papers, try to find the old green registration certificates from the RCMP.

If you can find the old registration papers, restricted or prohibited can still be reregistered into the new system.

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They don't care how valuable it is, if it is a prohib luger they won't arrest her , but they will seize the gun and they won't allow you to register it. I was fortunate, the luger I registered had a 120mm barrel and therefore restricted. If it had been the 4" barrel I would have been SOL.
 
mr00jimbo said:
Really? So if your grandmother has your late grandfather's trophy Luger from the war that was quite valuable, what on earth is she supposed to do with it?
Just turn it on for destruction?
Or the RCMP will slap the cuffs on a 90 year old woman to keep our society safer?
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Yes....

Now.. if it was registered and you have the Green card to prove it's a diffrent story but if he is already passed away it will be a fight to keep it. .

Let me put it this way 1 guy I knew had a very large full auto collection all rare tommy guns ect. He spend a ton of money on it as he put it he could of bought 10 of his homes for 1 gun that he bought. He wanted me to hide them for him since he had no family to give it to. He refused to send it a musium as they deactivate most firearms. I was offered allot of guns which I turned down I don't even want to touch something I can't legally own. Looking back now at it I should of took them since they had sinfigant historical sunificance. He passed away and he had already handed out all his guns (he was looking for someone he trusted or had the prohib status) So the guns just vansihed basicly.. Were they went or if they turned up I have no idea..
 
Find a gunsmith to work on the guns (probably difficult) and get the barrels swapped to restricted length then register them.
 
Can't do it from what I last heard. First, no gunsmith will work on an unregistered prohib gun and it can't be registered because it's prohib. Catch 22 all over.
 
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