Your first restricted purchase

My first was at a brick & mortar store, so I went home with it that day (I love living in the west) after about a 1 hour wait. They called the CFO, told tham I was waiting, they faxed over the TATT & the ATT right there.

My first on-line order took about 2 weeks from Ordering to Delivery. (Kodiak Outpost)

I have had some in 9 days (if private sale form a western Province) Usually the BC, AB, & SK CFO's all approve transfers the same day.

The longest I have ever had to wait was 16 weeks (Nork m-213 for Canam) but that was a bit different situation.... I pre-ordered, and we had to wait for them to hit our shores.

By far the smoothest transactions were from my local B&M store, but usually on-line sales are pretty seamless as well.

If I was waiting 21 days on average..... I'd be filing a complaint.... There is no reason for it to take that long! If I order a firearm from an on-line seller and it takes longer than 2 weeks for an in-stock item I would be asking some questions, and if the answers were not satisfactory.... I would stop doing business with them.

Cheers!
 
Glock 21 from P+D. Ordered on a Friday and it arrived the following Thursday, so six days total. I believe it was shipped late Monday/ early Tuesday IIRC.

Our CFO kicks ass. As others have stated transfers routinely take 24 hours or less. Ontario is not so fast from what I understand...
 
Just made my first puirchases in mid Nov, all private deals from the EE.

My Norc and Glock transfers took a day, my Sig .22 took about 8 days to transfer.

The sellers getting the paperwork and ATTs took a week or so and the restwas Canada Post.

Got the Glock Dec 4 and the Norc this past Friday. The Sig is being shipped this week. The thing that I found strange is that the sellers in other provinces had to wait a week or so for the ATTs. When I had the Canada Post card, it was a 5 minute phone call to get the TATT for me to pick them up.

Ontario seems to have the TATT part of it right. Hopefully my SIG will be here this week so I can get to the range on my Xmas days off.

My next purchase is a revolver I have had my eye on at the local dealer. I am curious how quickly this transaction will go.

Cactus
 
My first handgun was a High Standard I bought from the safety oficer in our club. He was also the person who applied for my ATT for the club but I had my .22 HS as soon as my RPAL came through.
 
Wow, seems most people are getting this done fairly quickly.

Tomorrow will be 5 days since we initiated the transfer, so I'll be calling and double checking the status.
I'll let you all know what they say. Then it's just shipping it or having the seller drop it off and waiting for my ATT to get to the range.

Quick question, anyone here from Ontario have an ATT but not an official member of a club? It works out cheaper for me to pay each time I go than to buy a membership but I've heard mixed results on whether or not the CFO will issue me an ATT to my local range if I'm not an official member.
 
My first restricted purchase was this five-screw S&W K-22 Masterpiece:

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I bought it from Ellwood Epps and if I recall correctly, it took somewhere between 1-2 weeks from when I ordered it to when it arrived here in Calgary. I remember calling the CFO to get a long term ATT and I got it even before the transfer went through on the gun.
 
I brought the green slip down to our local registrar filled in the paperwork hten he gave me a carry permit from the owners house to my house all said about 2 hours. Oh ya this was in 1984 - sorry.
ANdy

PS for you sudbury guys it was Frank Cummings as the registrar - the only shooter friendly person i ever dealt with in law enforcement. Thanks Frank we miss you.
 
Does the...what appears to be the BC 24 hour average still apply if its not only your first restricted but first gun ever? Im hoping to initiate a transfer of a newly purchased firearm on Monday morning...from a lower mainland gun store. Been waiting so long for my license, and now that its here it would make me incredibly sad to wait longer.
 
matt491 said:
....transfer the handgun into my name......THEN I have to apply for my ATT to get it to the range.
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The different provinces sure do things differently or else very inconsistently. Before I could even start a transfer I had to have both my RPAL, obviously, and belong to a club and have an ATT. Only THEN could I go and take possesion of my first handgun. And that was doing it through a store.
 
BCRider said:
The different provinces sure do things differently or else very inconsistently. Before I could even start a transfer I had to have both my RPAL, obviously, and belong to a club and have an ATT. Only THEN could I go and take possesion of my first handgun. And that was doing it through a store.
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Here you can't even start the ATT process without having the firearms registration certificate number which you get when it gets transferred to your name.

That's what I was told on the phone with the canadian firearms program people.
 
My first - well, the time was dependent on me. I bought it, then went back to the local OPP detachment for a transfer permit. Next day, I picked it up and drove it to the OPP office. Local firearms officer seemed to enjoy checking it out - an original Italian Beretta 92F - just after the first Lethal Weapon came out. Got the permit signed off to take it from there to home after he confirmed the registration details. Looking back, never even pulled out any photo ID (not that driver's licenses had photos back then!!).

I've never had my spouse called over a transfer. I did have a very obscene written test implemented by the London Police force at one time. True or false questionaire with questions like "I sometimes hear voices that others don't hear - True or False" or "I believe violence is a reasonable response to... - True / False"
 
I think I waited two business days for the transfer to be approved after I supplied proof of range membership. It may only have been overnight, but there have been a few since that first one.

Mark
 
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