Pal Verification

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Mooze

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I'm trying to purchase a firearm from an private seller. How can I verify the reference number obtained by a seller from rcmp just in case I didn't get any email from the rcmp?
 
Login to the rcmp site and look at your messages.

If your buying I'd say it doesn't matter.
It's up to the seller to take care of the PAL check.
 
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As the purchaser I wouldn't be too worried about it. You're not breaking any laws if the seller doesn't do what is required of them.
 
Mooze - even if you get an email from RCMP - I have received many, as BUYER - it will not give you the transfer number - the email will tell you to log into your account, with them, to see that number.

As mentioned above - and I have been through this several times - is no requirement that I know of for the BUYER to confirm that a transfer number has been issued to the SELLER - in most of the cases I have been in, there was no communication between Buyer and Seller about that transfer number.
 
Snider shooter said:
Still a lot of people that don’t know the law has changed. The question is when buying a gun from them do I inform them? Or do I do the deal and not mention it. Decisions. I like things simple.
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I would inform them if they didn't know about it. If they then said "well #### that stupid commie ass bull#### I'm not doing any of that" I would say cool, you do you. And then buy the gun. Because its his ass on the line, not mine.

I am of the opinion that knowledge is power, so I am on a never-ending quest to help people understand the convoluted mess we call firearms laws and the expectations under those laws. Once we've reached an understanding of what the law is whether you want to follow that law or not is up to you.
 
^^ I would agree - that transfer number makes about no sense to me at all - about anyone with account can log in at night-time - enter required information and some computer, somewhere, spits out a number - not like a human being approved that, or did any "checks" to what that computer did. And, is absolutely no correlation to whether or not a sale actually occurred - it might have or it might not have. Some "thing" may have changed hands, or maybe it did not. By itself, that "transfer number" is simply saying that the PAL number is valid - I thought that is what I had already paid for when I got the thing - that my "PAL" was going to be taken from me, if I went off-side. Logging in to the RCMP website, I see there are a number of "transfer numbers" assigned to me that are still valid - so if my PAL is suspended, Seller still has that "valid" transfer number - is no need or law to verify that the transfer number is still valid, once issued. Coming from an old dude that used to buy and own guns before there was PAL, before there was FAC. I do not consider the current state to be "normal" times, at all, although there are likely many that think something is being accomplished.
 
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