Transfer- Help!

bluemike807

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Ok, Im new to restricted, so please bear with me.

I just completed the over the phone part of the transfer. It has now been forwarded on to my provincial CFO (NS) for completion. I asked how long that usually takes - no idea. (What I was expecting). But when I asked how I would be informed of when/if it went through - they said that I would only be contacted if there was a problem, otherwise I would get the registration in the mail... days/weeks from now.

WTF. I have the fellow on the other end of the trade waiting to ship me the thing. How does that help?

I've tried calling all the numbers I can find for my provincial CFO (I've tried to reach him before, the guy/office is impossible to get a hold of, much less a call back from) - and the numbers either go to the CFO's personal voicemail (which I know from experience is a black hole), or it just rings then dies. no answering service, etc.

Please help?
 
Don;t worry. They send the fellow who is selling you the gun a short term ATT so that he can send it. When he gets it he will send it to you so all you have to do it wait. Let the seller know that you have completed the transfer and ask him or her to let you know when he is sending it. Depending on the province I have seen them take as long as 2 or more weeks and be as fast as the same day.

Graydog
 
graydog said:
Don;t worry. They send the fellow who is selling you the gun a short term ATT so that he can send it. When he gets it he will send it to you so all you have to do it wait. Let the seller know that you have completed the transfer and ask him or her to let you know when he is sending it. Depending on the province I have seen them take as long as 2 or more weeks and be as fast as the same day.

Graydog
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If the seller is a Dealer then he most probably has a BIN (Business equivalent to a PIN) and can check on the status of the Transfer number (TN) and registration of the firearm.
My own last (and first) dealer got the transfer initiated on a Friday (late-ish p.m.) and the first time he checked the status online on Monday a.m., it had been approved.
 
Also living in Nova Scotia. I usually get the Registration Certificate in the mail two to three weeks after the CFO's office has been notified. I've never had them call me. If the seller is concerned, I think he'd call you. I suppose you could contact him with the progress so far. I'd certainly do that when you have a Transfer Number. It doesn't sound like anything out of the ordinary. You just have to let the transfer take its course. When you need to contact the CFO, the easiest way is to call CFC and ask them to transfer you, but it really doesn't sound like you need to do that.
 
Once you call in the Reference number and do your part you can follow that call up to the same number and ask if the gun has been transferred, in Alberta the number is 1800731400, not sure what it is in your neck of the woods. If it has been transferred they will tell you (after the requisit security questions have been successfully answered by you) and they will give you the new Cert Number, you can then call your province with the cert # and ask for an ATT, and the seller can legally ship the gun as it is now legally in your name. If the sellers does not believe you and wants to verify the information they too can call in and verify the new certificate number. This is not legal advice nor intended to be, its just my understanding of how the systems works and is one way to potentially expedite the transfer. This method has been verbally approved as apropriate by the folks answering the phone at the number given. Hope this helps a bit.
 
graydog said:
Don;t worry. They send the fellow who is selling you the gun a short term ATT so that he can send it. ...Graydog
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Does the B.C. CFO send short term ATTs to sellers without the sellers asking? I just sold a restricted gun to a Gunnut in Quebec and my CFO (SK) didn't send me the short term ATT on their own initiative, I had to ask for it.

I wouldn't assume the CFC would tell a seller's CFO of a transfer, since there's really no reason why a CFO would be concerned with someone getting rid of a gun as long as it was legal. and the CFC checks on that when the transfer is initiated. The buyer's CFO - Quebec in my example - certainly is notified automatically by CFC because they have to approve the transfer, but I don't know if any CFO automatically issues a short term ATT for a buyer to fetch a newly acquired gun.

Unless the relevant CFO offices issues a written policy statement that says they will automatically issue ATTs when they hear of and approve a transfer, I think the buyer and seller had better take the initiative to query their respective CFOs.

Update: I just received a written notice from CFO QC that the transfer referred to above is approved. Of course by this time I had already shipped the pistol, having had a ST-ATT issued earlier in the week by CFO SK.
 
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Yeah, I've never been automatically issued a short-term att when shipping, always had to call for one. As for notification on transfers, call to ask the status. If they verify that it is done, you are good to go. I've had the cfo confirm it is ok to ship before paperwork comes, just ask them to email you the att, they have always done this while I'm still on the phone (when I was the seller).
 
TheTooner said:
Does the B.C. CFO send short term ATTs to sellers without the sellers asking?
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In BC, as a seller, you have to apply to the BC CPFO for the ST-ATT to take a restricted to ship it once the transfer has been approved. Just did a transfer on the 7th, called the CFC this morning on the reference number to get an "update" & it was "approved" so they put me thru to the CFO's ST-ATT line. I left a message with the relevant info. The ST-ATT was emailed to me within 2 hours. I mailed the item this afternoon. So, to recap, transferred & shipped inside 2 days, with the proper ST-ATT obtained.... :cool:

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NAA.
 
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