Update On Ontario Restricted Transfer Times

shelley1958 said:
Don't use the covid 19 crisis as an excuse for them, this unacceptable foot dragging on getting transfers done, started way before the corona crisis!
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It is complete horse####. This is a simple computerized process if every other province can get these done within a week what is the Ontario office doing instead of their job? The unknown of it is why I hate buying restricted so if that's their goal than I guess it's working.
 
Gele Donut said:
It is complete horse####. This is a simple computerized process if every other province can get these done within a week what is the Ontario office doing instead of their job? The unknown of it is why I hate buying restricted so if that's their goal than I guess it's working.
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Jokes on them I usually get bored waiting and have another transfer to start by the time the first comes in.
 
tiriaq said:
A week or so ago, I was told 5-10 business days. We'll see.
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Going on week 3 for my most recent. Not that I'm in a hurry to use it but it does annoy me to spend so much money and then have to wait because of what should be a simple administrative process.
 
pygmalion2020 said:
This would be one of the easiest jobs to set up for people to do from home, a phone line and a laptop is all you need. If an employee can do their job from home then the government should be doing what it can to make that happen. Having a ton of people at home on paid leave is a waste if its a job that can be done remotely and this is definitely one of those jobs.

That being said this was never a priority for the government, it seems that the slower guns change hands the better in their eyes.
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You clearly have never worked for government. Our information has security, you can't just access the system securely from a laptop.
 
I did a transfer last week in BC and it took 3-4 day to get ATT, however this was before they declare emergency. I guess this is handled by RCMP and it should be same across the country.
 
saitek11 said:
You clearly have never worked for government. Our information has security, you can't just access the system securely from a laptop.
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Assuming that PAL and transfer related data is Protected B (name, DoB, address, license number etc) it would be accessible via remote access VPN using a work laptop from anywhere with an internet connection. For the Federal government anyways. I can't imagine it would be any different for the provincial government.

The question is, if remote access networks can only support a certain percentage of employees working remotely, are priva citizen firearms transfers a priority for the government at this time? Probably not.
 
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Sidhuman said:
I did a transfer last week in BC and it took 3-4 day to get ATT, however this was before they declare emergency. I guess this is handled by RCMP and it should be same across the country.
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It isn't unfortunately. Some provinces have their own CFOs with usually crappier service standards. I've been waiting on a restricted transfer since February 1st in Quebec.
 
Mike969 said:
Assuming that PAL and transfer related data is Protected B (name, DoB, address, license number etc) it would be accessible via remote access VPN using a work laptop from anywhere with an internet connection. For the Federal government anyways. I can't imagine it would be any different for the provincial government.

The question is, if remote access networks can only support a certain percentage of employees working remotely, are priva citizen firearms transfers a priority for the government at this time? Probably not.
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PAL and such info is protected A, not B, but yeah, you're spot on for the rest.

The problem is how much resources is allocated to VPNs. In the current situation, only about 5% of federal govt workers can access their datas through VPNs during normal hours, so it's mostly reserved for the top brass. The other 95% are either restricted to a few minutes per day if your job is deemed high-priority, or access only after 8PM for non-priority employees. Guess which category transferring a restricted would fall in. The system wasn't made for people to work from home on such a large scale.

Provincial CFOs are probably even worse off. But at least they're still going to work, didn't shut down everything like the federal did.
 
I don't believe this has anything to do with a Liberal agenda of slowing things down.
There's just a much higher volume of transfers in Ontario and Quebec.
Obviously staffing levels could be increased but probably no money to do so.
Ontario currently has a convervative government BTW.
 
I picked up something new on March 17. I was naive enough to think it wouldn't take more than 48 hours to get it shipped over. From what I'm reading here, it likely won't get shipped till at least the end of the first week of April if I'm lucky, and there's a chance I'll have to wait till mid-June?!?
 
9mmGunGuy said:
I don't believe this has anything to do with a Liberal agenda of slowing things down.
There's just a much higher volume of transfers in Ontario and Quebec.
Obviously staffing levels could be increased but probably no money to do so.
Ontario currently has a convervative government BTW.
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Agree.It is the last thing on any government's mind right now Liberals included
Cheers
 
I called two transfers from NB to Ontario in on the 9th. No word yet. The buyer told me that when he called in his confirmation he was told "about 15 business days". Of course that was just before the Covid hit the fan so who knows now.
 
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