Good afternoon folks,
I am new to this forum and am looking for advice. My father just recently passed. I am going to soon be in the process of selling off many restricted firearms. I am looking for some advice as to what would be my best route in selling these firearms. I am currently in the process of transferring over ownership to myself. I do carry a Restricted PAL however don’t have a Prohibited.
Wondering what the Best route is, whether it’s auction, or individual item sale ot perhaps there’s someone out there interested in a large lot. Open to any advice.
Thanks!
I am in similar boat - at least my mother passed in August 2025 - her Will named me as Executor of her Estate. Court of King's Bench in Saskatchewan issued Letters Probate to me in January 2026. A Chartered Accountant has filed Mom's personal Tax Return for Tax Year 2025 and the Tax Return for 2025 Tax Year for her Estate - I have received "Notice of Assessment" from CRA for both. The numbers that the Estate Lawyer and that Chartered Accountant used, came from various T4 slips (Pensions, that Mom was receiving), bank account statements and my valuation of Mom's personal assets - so there was a "probate fee" for the Estate to pay in order to get those Letters Probate issued - the "probate fee" was based on the value of that Estate that the Will (Trust) had assigned to me with instructions how to dispose of it to whom.
OP - you do not mention if there was a Will or if you are an Executor of an Estate (Trustee of a Trust) - if so, do you have a process underway to get Letters Probate? Have Income Tax Returns been done? If you are an Executor of a Will - you will have the same status as the deceased person had for possession (not use of) the firearms - you will not need any paperwork for yourself for the firearms, to hold them or to lawfully dispose of them, so long as you are the Executor of a Will. If there was no Will, your Province will have rules for what happens then.
So, my hands have been full with this job (being an Executor) - I warned my brothers and sister (the other "heirs" named in that Will) that it will probably be late 2026 or perhaps into 2027 before they see any money. I (The Estate) have hired a Lawyer in Saskatchewan to deal with King's Court (where Mom was residing when she passed) and a Chartered Accountant here in Manitoba to deal with Federal CRA - what we discovered is that there is much similar for wills, province-to-province, but each has their own twists - each Province makes their own rules - so not exactly the same rules as when Father-in-Law and Mother-in Law passed in B.C. compared to Father and Mother passing in Saskatchewan. No reason to believe that Ontario, New Brunswick or Quebec would be the same to either.
I did not have any firearms to dispose of - some years ago Mom, I and my Sister had a discussion that it was MUCH easier for a living person to gift stuff, than it was to get the same stuff to the same person via a Will. So Mom's Estate is about all bank account - very little personal items - no vehicle registrations to deal with - no real estate to transfer title, etc. - she gave away most of the physical things that she wanted specific people to have - she gave them away while she (Mom) was living.
