I'm unsure about how the ATT's work now

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Good morning all,
It's been many years since I've owned any restricted firearms and the laws changed twice since.
Back when I bought my first restricted we got a temporary ATT that allowed you to take your firearm home from the store.
Then there was a separate ATT, which allowed you to take your firearm from your home to a range in the province.

At some point ATT's were scrapped and then brought back in.

When I bought my restricted a month ago, I asked the guy doing the transfer how that worked now and was told it would be emailed to me.
I now think(And this is where the confusion comes in) that he was referring to the ATT that allows me to pick my firearm up from the store.

My question is, Do I still need to apply for my ATT to take the gun to my range? Or is it sent to me by default since my firearm is now registered?
If the answer is that I need to contact the CFC in Alberta and request the ATT, do I then use the cfpcfounit@rcmp-grc.gc.ca email address to request it?

Thanks for getting me back on the right track
 
ATTs from point of purchase (Including the post office, if it has been shipped to you and held) to home are automatic now, as are ATTs to a shooting range. Everything else must be applied for (Including transport to a gunsmith, gun show, border crossing, etc).
 
Scotty454 said:
ATTs from point of purchase (Including the post office, if it has been shipped to you and held) to home are automatic now, as are ATTs to a shooting range. Everything else must be applied for (Including transport to a gunsmith, gun show, border crossing, etc).
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Ah ok thanks so I just have to be patient.
Thanks for clarifying that.
 
Scotty454 said:
ATTs from point of purchase (Including the post office, if it has been shipped to you and held) to home are automatic now, as are ATTs to a shooting range. Everything else must be applied for (Including transport to a gunsmith, gun show, border crossing, etc).
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Sorry if this is a thread hijack but I've read some conflicting information regarding the ATT and the post office. If I'm not home when the package arrives and it gets sent to the post office for me to pick up instead, do I have to get a separate short-term ATT to bring the package home from the post office or am I good to just go there and pick it up? Thanks in advance.
 
cjl8651 said:
Sorry if this is a thread hijack but I've read some conflicting information regarding the ATT and the post office. If I'm not home when the package arrives and it gets sent to the post office for me to pick up instead, do I have to get a separate short-term ATT to bring the package home from the post office or am I good to just go there and pick it up? Thanks in advance.
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Pick it up. No ATT required.
 
cjl8651 said:
Sorry if this is a thread hijack but I've read some conflicting information regarding the ATT and the post office. If I'm not home when the package arrives and it gets sent to the post office for me to pick up instead, do I have to get a separate short-term ATT to bring the package home from the post office or am I good to just go there and pick it up? Thanks in advance.
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No separate ATT needed in that situation
 
cjl8651 said:
Sorry if this is a thread hijack but I've read some conflicting information regarding the ATT and the post office. If I'm not home when the package arrives and it gets sent to the post office for me to pick up instead, do I have to get a separate short-term ATT to bring the package home from the post office or am I good to just go there and pick it up? Thanks in advance.
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I spoke to someone at the AB CFO office recently regarding this situation. I was told that a buyer's notification is required for pickup from a post office and that standard restricted transport procedures apply. He recommended I open it an ensure it is trigger locked??? In a post office??? Then put in a non-transparent locked receptacle.

Unfortunately it seems that the AB CFO office is not currently sending out buyer's notifications, so I had to call and have them issue one (took ~45 minutes before I got through).
 
MinuteOfDonut said:
I spoke to someone at the AB CFO office recently regarding this situation. I was told that a buyer's notification is required for pickup from a post office and that standard restricted transport procedures apply. He recommended I open it an ensure it is trigger locked??? In a post office??? Then put in a non-transparent locked receptacle.

Unfortunately it seems that the AB CFO office is not currently sending out buyer's notifications, so I had to call and have them issue one (took ~45 minutes before I got through).
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Oh yes, because that is all you need. Someone seeing that, calls the cops. Trying explaining that, oh someone at the CFO told me to do this.

Take the package and go right home.
 
MinuteOfDonut said:
I spoke to someone at the AB CFO office recently regarding this situation. I was told that a buyer's notification is required for pickup from a post office and that standard restricted transport procedures apply. He recommended I open it an ensure it is trigger locked??? In a post office??? Then put in a non-transparent locked receptacle.

Unfortunately it seems that the AB CFO office is not currently sending out buyer's notifications, so I had to call and have them issue one (took ~45 minutes before I got through).
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Maybe the janitor picked up the phone, I hear that Alb has a new CFO, I sure hope that is not who gave you that stupid advice.
 
marshall said:
Maybe the janitor picked up the phone, I hear that Alb has a new CFO, I sure hope that is not who gave you that stupid advice.
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Making me wonder if it was a agent from the CFP not the actual CFO. As I don't think they would tell you to open a package containing a restricted in a public space.
 
MinuteOfDonut said:
I spoke to someone at the AB CFO office recently regarding this situation. I was told that a buyer's notification is required for pickup from a post office and that standard restricted transport procedures apply. He recommended I open it an ensure it is trigger locked??? In a post office??? Then put in a non-transparent locked receptacle.

Unfortunately it seems that the AB CFO office is not currently sending out buyer's notifications, so I had to call and have them issue one (took ~45 minutes before I got through).
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That is some bad advice right there. "But officer, the guy on the phone told me to do that" while you are facedown on the ground getting cuffed.
 
Honestly never cared about the ATTs before, and I still dont care about them now. Just refrain from stopping to rob the liquor store or murder anyone on your way home and you likely won't have an issue
 
Funny my CFO specified that your ATT covers picking it up from the postal outlet if you are not home. So NO an ATT is not required. So posting that so in so told you that you needed to open a package, at the post office containing a restricted. Is sure fire way of getting yourself shot. Unless you got black and white written proof. What you heard should be left to yourself.

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My point in posting the (frankly horrible) advice I was given by my CFO is that these people are not legal experts. Their opinions are as close to worthless as you can get. To trust their opinion is to take a risk.

I assumed that members of this forum would have the common sense to understand how absurd a suggestion it was that the AB CFO's office provided me.

Even if you have it in writing all that does is show that someone told you that you could. Good luck with that as a defense.
 
This came as part of my transfer approval in Ontario.

Changes under Bill C-71 removed 4 transportation activities as conditions on a RPAL - leaving only:
- To/from an approved shooting range (within your province);
- Transport from a place of acquisition to the licence holder's dwelling after acquisition (within your province)

So the updated RPAL (which will say standard and transportation conditions are attached to this licence) you got with your first restricted purchase allows you to transfer to a range or from where you buy the gun only. Anything else requires additional ATT.
 
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simple call/email them and ask for gunsmiths and border crossings to be added to your LATT and they'll do it, often with little argument. They can also add a neat clause that states you can transport any restricted (and 12/6 if you have that) so long as you have the reg certs.
 
Okay now I’m confused . What is an LATT ? So if I’m waiting for my new RPAL as I made my first pistol purchases a month ago I can phone the CFO and ask for attachments that will also let me take my restricteds to the gunsmith ?. . .
Thanks
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Slavex said:
simple call/email them and ask for gunsmiths and border crossings to be added to your LATT and they'll do it, often with little argument. They can also add a neat clause that states you can transport any restricted (and 12/6 if you have that) so long as you have the reg certs.
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