Picked Up Prohibs From A Guy Who Let His (FAC) Expire In 1998, Why Do People Do That?

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I picked up some Prohibs from a guy who let his FAC expire in 1998.
How do people miss out on something as important as letting your licence expire?

They weren't just junk guns, a Ruger GP-100, two Ruger SP-101s in 38 and 22 cal, S&W 686 and a 659.
The S&W 29 will look good in my kit when I go to the range, can't wait to touch it off.
They all came with original boxes, and he didn't renew his licence.
It kind of ticks me off when an educated person with a good income, didn't take care something when it was so simple.
 
Sometimes , people just get fed up with the BS red tape associated with firearm ownership and give up . I am not postive , but I suspect that has been the RCMPs and other anti-gun folks goal all along . Make firearm ownership such a hassle in Canada with all the regulations , licenses , uncertainy , etc.......that people just give up on owning and keeping firearms.....
 
Easy to be incredulous there albayo, but lets say one's senior family member picks up your mail (including rpal(prohib) renewal notice) for you, as a favour, while you're off on vacation. Say that senior stops at a yard sale on the way home. Shoves the mail into the bag full of old DVD's, and stashes the bag in a cupboard. Months later ... "oh, sorry, this is mail of yours I just found".

And so goes the prohibs to the smelter.
 
Or perhaps the owner didn't really care about ridiculous laws and tended to ignore what went on in government and how it might screw him up 16 years later. If you don't feel that you need nanny state permission to continue owning your property you may pay little attention to what is going on in government. There are thousands of old gun owners in western Canada that pretty much did whatever they pleased and ignored the government and its edicts. Sometimes it bites them down the road, sometimes nothing happens at all.


Mark
 
Vviking you have a good point.
He moved from this community across the river to Moncton and probably never informed the CFC.
I remember that some of the old Green Slips had his address in my community, and his parents address on them.
I think most of them were bought new from various places like Lever Arms.
Looking back over my correspondence they have their original boxes, owners manuals, and accessories.
He was a young single guy back then and was probably more interested in the pursuit of the opposite ###.
He has two children and just now thought of firearms around children bothered him, even though they were locked in a secure area.
 
albayo said:
I picked up some Prohibs from a guy who let his FAC expire in 1998.
How do people miss out on something as important as letting your licence expire?

They weren't just junk guns, a Ruger GP-100, two Ruger SP-101s in 38 and 22 cal, S&W 686 and a 659.
The S&W 29 will look good in my kit when I go to the range, can't wait to touch it off.
They all came with original boxes, and he didn't renew his licence.
It kind of ticks me off when an educated person with a good income, didn't take care something when it was so simple.
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I am just curious how you managed to transfer them legally . If his license is expired as of 16 years ago then his reg certs are no good . And they can't be transferred before the paper work is done so???
 
I'm sure their is a way. I'm curious to find out how. A friend of mine got a bunch of prohibs from his brother because his license expired as well... so sad!
 
I picked up a Luger and a nickel plated S&W M36 from a guy in the same situation a few years ago. When they finally caught up to him, they gave him 30 days to sell, give or turn in his guns. As long as it was registered under the green slip system then it can be reregistered.

I would live to know how these guys can fall through the cracks and not be discovered for so long.
 
They just go back into the old records and transfer them. We talked to the CFC on Monday, had the ATT and new cert numbers in the mail on Friday.
I have purchased many guns over the years when all the owner had was the green slip. The information is there just have to get it out of the older files.
They want the guns to be brought into compliance. That's what they said and they used the term compliance.
 
mmattockx said:
Or perhaps the owner didn't really care about ridiculous laws and tended to ignore what went on in government and how it might screw him up 16 years later. If you don't feel that you need nanny state permission to continue owning your property you may pay little attention to what is going on in government. There are thousands of old gun owners in western Canada that pretty much did whatever they pleased and ignored the government and its edicts. Sometimes it bites them down the road, sometimes nothing happens at all.
Mark
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Toronto Guns and Gangs unit, they go down the list alphabetically. If you happen to be a Mr. Zzaccharia Zzorro ... there may be some time yet ... before the axe falls.

albayo said:
Vviking you have a good point.
He moved from this community across the river to Moncton and probably never informed the CFC.
I remember that some of the old Green Slips had his address in my community, and his parents address on them.
I think most of them were bought new from various places like Lever Arms.
Looking back over my correspondence they have their original boxes, owners manuals, and accessories.
He was a young single guy back then and was probably more interested in the pursuit of the opposite ###.
He has two children and just now thought of firearms around children bothered him, even though they were locked in a secure area.
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A point?. Perhaps OP ... but nevertheless ... such a sad end for those noble FA's.
I'm an older coot who's forever been spoiled by his past liberties. Can't hardly be bothered with even restricted these days. Just keeping the LTATT intact in Ont. ... is a full time job.
 
Marcel B. said:
What a useless bunch of crap they created.
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+1 to the above quote.

I've had at least two persons who couldn't be bothered with continuing the licensing & 12(6) BS etc just give me their prohibs [legally transfered, of course] as I have 12(6) on my PAL rather than just turn them in.

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vviking said:
Toronto Guns and Gangs unit, they go down the list alphabetically. If you happen to be a Mr. Zzaccharia Zzorro ... there may be some time yet ... before the axe falls.
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I know about enough unlicensed gun owners in rural Alberta to think that they never go down the list out here. I think some of them have never been entered into the system and are safer than those that were licensed and let it lapse.


Mark
 
People pay good money to take the firearm course and test, and then years later phone me up and tell me they lost the paperwork and now they want to get the PAL. Also, I have seniors who let their POL lapse, often because, they moved or have a summer residence and mail gets lost. I sit on the phone with them to the firearms centre and get everything lined up to have the renewal form sent to them, and then months later, they still haven't filled out and mailed it. I could spend hours nursemaiding people to get their paperwork in order, but at some point you have to give up and hope it doesn't come back to bite them.
 
Lost my prohib status when I sold my 25cal Bereta. No one told me that if I sold my last prohib pistol, I couldn't just go buy another one. I figured because I HAD my 12.6 forever. Sneeky sh1ts !!
 
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