Gunsmithing license

My package showed up yesterday for Ontario. There is nothing on the application making any reference to any past training or experience. A gunsmith can work on non restricted, restricted and prohibited firearms if he applies for them on the application and his shop and security measure up to the guidelines. Restricted and prohibited firearms can be registered to the business. That is not part of the gunsmithing, that falls under the business licence. That is so you can sell firearms ie trade ins or whatever. Since the business owns the prohib if you are not grandfathered you can't take it to a range. I think that about covers it.
Dave
 
What Ishootguns says above is how I understand it also. I have been checking into somewhat and there are businesses that handle prohibs where the owner is not grandfathered. There are shops that work on full autos and even test them. As I understand it, you would be able to take the prohibs to a range in the course of working on it, function testing and so on.
 
As for testing that is in a section on the last page that you have to check off that you would be developing, modifing or testing. So you would have to be sure to complete that section of the application or it would not be included in your license.
Dave
 
No, unfortunately that does not cover it and I speak from experience in Ontario. All the app does is to initiate the process.

In ON to have Gunsmith on the licence they want formal training. I am not saying this is right or wrong but just the way it is. What you ask for on the app and what you get are different things.

The final licence will spell out very specific things, as ours does. Since ON is not involved in any apprenticeship programs for gunsmithing they most likely have no right to decide who is or is not a qualified gunsmith, but that is a different battle and it really doesn't matter as long as the licence does not prevent you from earning a living the way you want to.

You will find you do have human interaction with the guys that hand out the licence and they will ask specifically what you plan to do and the licence will spell that out. They seem think that if you can not build a double gun from scratch then you are not a gunsmith. Of course this would put a lot of current gunsmiths out of "gunsmithing".

Ian
 
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Be very careful...

"Restricted and prohibited firearms can be registered to the business. " Not so for prohibs if you ever want to resell, Dave :) Once a prohibited handgun or firearm is transferred into a business inventory, it can never again be privately owned.

You may be able to hold one for sale on consignment, store it , or work on it under a clause that states that for the purposes of working in a gun shop/store, an employee is deemed to have the next category of licence bla bla bla.

Or something very close to that wording :)

It would be interesting actually to see just what it is that you (as a licensed gunsmith) can and can't do with these prohib firearms! I do know that even though I am licenced for 12(5) among others, this last year they removed the portion of my Business Licence that used to allow me to "test and demonstrate"/. Bummer! As of now, we can not store them, repair them, or test them, only possess for resale on behalf of a licenced owner. What next?

As for the original topic, I had known of no training requirements for Gunsmiths, at least not by the federal guys.

Gunnar
www.armco-guns.com
 
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