license issued - can I buy a gun before it comes in?

[basicbill]

Online it shows that my license has been issued. There is a chance that a Yugo SKS will come up before I receive it.

Has anyone bought a firearm while waiting for the PAL to come in?

 

[Dukkake]

I am currently in the process of doing so. Already paid for the gun, waiting for the card to get it shipped. I am going to try and call the CFO offices and get my PAL number if possible to transfer and ship it before the physical card arrives, so I'll let you know how it goes.

 

[Noltz]

Perhaps in BC, but the Ontario CFO will not give out your card number. At least she/they would not for me. "You have to be in physical possession of the card in order to be in possession of the firearm, so we cannot give out the number."

 

[Dukkake]

Yeah I'm gonna try the angle of applying for gun club membership and see if it works, because I also want to do that

 

[Juster]

You don't have to be in physical possession of your purchase to purchase it.

 

[Shooting Bastard]

After my PAL was issued, but before it arrived in the mail, I called the BC CFO with this very question, a few months back. The answer was an emphatic no!