My first restricted purchased last Feb 25 had a transfer number of 5844804 so in 11 months, 155196 transfers between that and the 6,000,000 and approx 210,600 between then and the last of the mass transfers in late October
Update On Ontario Restricted Transfer Times
- Thread starter pygmalion2020
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What do you mean "the program is ending?" Restricted rifles still exist (for now, at least), and some pistols will still be allowed to be transferred (Olympic athletes, people with an ATC, etc.). I can understand why they may not want to staff up to deal with a temporary deluge of applications with a fixed end date, but the restricted firearm transfer program isn't exactly "ending" any time soon.
Yes the only thing that "ended" was the freeze of the transfer of a handgun to an individual
Brendon292
CGN Regular
- Location
- Kingston, ON
The CFP will need far fewer staff to transfer restricted firearms once they're caught up on pistols, this is an objective fact. Olympic/ATC pistol transfers will almost certainly be escalated to a supervisor too.
Sure, there are restricted rifles out there but not many. How many transfers will the CFP realistically be doing a week? 5? 10?
Either way you look at it, they'll be doing a lot less transfers than they were doing before. The market for restricted rifle outside of AR's is very very limited, and handguns are gone. So there isn't much less. There will be next to nothing if the amendment to C-21 passes.
I would think that the transfer of handgun registrations prior to the announcement in May was just one part of the role for the CFO office. Yes the extra staff will likely move on once the HG transfers are caught up but the rest of the workload is like to stay.
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Exactly there’s a fair bit of work for them to do other than transfers I assume, and if not they can transfer them to other teams within the OPP.
FatCatsDad
CGN Ultra frequent flyer
Restricted rifles are a small percentage of restricted sales since most common ones got netted in the OIC the Olympic stuff and select exemptions are likely negligible
machohugeaxe
Regular
- Location
- Peel Region, Ontario
My last one is 6040###, how long do you think they'll take to move through 40,000 Canada wide numbers?
I could be wrong but at this point I think the vast majority of still pending transfers are in Ontario so the old 1/3 rule doesn't apply anymore. Other provinces have been processing Ref numbers starting with 60###xx for months now.
