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Originally Posted by firemachine69
PALs, here I come! :cheers:
BTW, rumour mill has it that ATTs (license required to bring certain weapons to ranges - restricted and prohibited) are no longer being issued by the CFC.
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The CFOs, which are appointed under the Firearms Act, are no longer issuing Special Authority to Possess permits (SAPs) for 12(x) class prohibited firearms. The policy change, which contradicts federal government promises made prior to the Royal Assent of Bill C-10A, means that anyone with a prohibited firearm can no longer take it to the range.
As such, when it comes time to re-new the license for target shooting purposes, the CFOs can revoke the license on the grounds that it no longer permits target shooters to bring their guns to the range. If you re-register the firearms under the collector status, you surrender your rights to them, and the Federal Government may confiscate them at any time in the future without compensation or permission.
Users affected by this move towards confiscation should not re-register themselves as collectors. If they do, they are giving up their firearms.
A class action lawsuit has been launched to fight this thinly-veiled attempt at confiscation, and individual court challenges have been launched to fight the CFO refusal to issue SAPs.
More information is available on CGN, including guidelines on how to launch your own court challenge or join the class action lawsuit.
The policy change, for the time being, does not affect ATTs. ATTs are not the same as SAPs.
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Originally Posted by firemachine69
For now - what you want is a collector's license. This is, for now, the only means of being able to acquire restricted weapons.
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No. No. No. Absolutely not.
Collector status has no rights to ownership of firearms, and the federal government may confiscate them at any time without confiscation or permission. Firearms transferred to the collector status may never be fired again by the owner, and they can never be re-registered to the target shooting status. The CFC will refuse to issue ATTs for them, refuse to issue hunting permits for them or refuse to allow them for use in competitions on the grounds that they are now a collector's item.
Never register your firearms as a collector, and do not transfer any firearms you own to the collector status.
KD