Whats the process for buying a hand gun

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Hi Iv got a question about buying a hand gun. Iv passed the RPal class and sent my paper work out about a month ago so i should be getting in about 4 weeks. I just wanted to know what the process is for buying a hand gun in B.C. I know you have to have a licence to a shotting club and get a licence to trasnport it. But to you still need a separate licence to bring the gun from the store to home.
Iv heard that you do not need that licence any more is that true?
 
Step 1 - Find and join a CFO-approved club*.
Step 2 - Find and buy the firearm. Contact the CFC to initiate the transfer.
Step 3 - Wait for the CFO/CFC approval.
Step 4 - Contact the CFO for a temporary ATT (for store to home)
Step 5 - Apply for the long-term ATT (for target shooting)

*(You may or may not be required to join a club. Just join a club; it's easiest.)

CFC
http://www.cfc-cafc.gc.ca/default_e.asp

CFO (for British Columbia)
http://www.cfc-cafc.gc.ca/cfo/cfo_list_e.asp?PC=BC

Your CFO can also help you find a CFO-approved club.
 
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That pretty much sums it up perfectly. These days it seems that ALL provinces are requiring that you join a club.

Wait times for approvals from the CFO for your transfer vary greatly from province to province. To get a better idea of how long its going to be, theres a thread titled "CFO wait times" or something to that effect in one of the forums.
 
Wendell said:
Step 1 - Find and join a CFO-approved club*.
Step 2 - Find and buy the firearm. Contact the CFC to initiate the transfer.
Step 3 - Wait for the CFO/CFC approval.
Step 4 - Contact the CFO for a temporary ATT (for store to home)
Step 5 - Apply for the long-term ATT (for target shooting)

In BC you have to move step 5 up between step 2 and 3 because they won't issue you a permit until your LTATT has been approved, not knowing this cost me an extra week wait.
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This process seems to violate the entrenched Charter right to liberty, the right to enjoy property as endowed to every citizen in the Canadian Bill or Rights, and the right to own property enumerated in the UN Declaration of human rights.

I'm amazed that with the clearly layed out rights people have, that the CFO can somehow trample on them with ease.
 
Your rights, or lack there of.

Wildbore said:
This process seems to violate the entrenched Charter right to liberty, the right to enjoy property as endowed to every citizen in the Canadian Bill or Rights, and the right to own property enumerated in the UN Declaration of human rights.

I'm amazed that with the clearly layed out rights people have, that the CFO can somehow trample on them with ease.
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It started with your parents abandoning you and applying to the government for a birth certificate, thus handing your life over to be under the rule of law and government. Then you went and got a S.I.N. the next thing that entrenched you into the rule of government over your life. You then asked or begged for a driver's license, credit cards, CPP, EI, and a host of other permits, loans and so forth.

You no longer have access to those "human rights" as the government is taking care of your treatment from cradle to grave.

Sorry to break the bad news to you.
 
GDavies said:
Whats the process for buying a hand gun
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Meet me in the back alley, behind chong's noodles, on Finch, in downtown Toronto, after dark.
Bring $900 in used, unmarked, non-sequential, small denomination bills in a brown paper bag.

Selection is limited, but approval is as fast as my buddy Ted can count.
 
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Wendell summed it up pretty nicely.

FWIW, I managed to get my handgun without having been a club member first, in Ontario no less. Kinda pointless, since you need to be a club member to get your LTATT to be able to actually use the gun, but hey it can happen.
 
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