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Next time, just send a cheque or money order.

To transfer a restricted requires agreement from both parties. The person currently on record as the owner initiates the transfer, the receiver must verify and accept. So, you transfer your firearm to Johnny Q Badactor, and he accepts. He is now the registered owner of a firearm, and refuses...

This. The firearm basically magically stops being a firearm, legally speaking, as long as it's entrusted to the Canada Post Corporation; they're able to transport, store, and hand it out, with no PAL required, no ATT required. So, you need an ATT to bring it to the Canada Post office, as...

It's a Canada Post requirement, not a Criminal Code requirement.

I didn't see it mentioned here, but I believe you also must still ship firearms ground. Watching the tracking on a package from BC to Ontario slowly update over a week or so while 'The Littlest Hobo' theme plays in my head, or sometimes 'The Lonely Man' piano theme from the Incredible Hulk TV...

Clean them: 1) When first acquired 2) when they get noticeably dirty or inaccurate or start to jam or suffer various 'failure to....' conditions 3) when they're getting put away for the season, with some extra rust preventative 4) when they're coming back out for the season, to get off the extra...

There's exactly one firearms license in Canada, the PAL. You take the CFSC, you get your PAL. At the same time you take your CFSC, take the add-on CRFSC, the Canadian Restricted Firearms Safety Course. When you apply for your PAL, you tick the box that you'd also like the 'Restricted'...

When I did my daughter's minor PAL app, there was a second form they mailed me that I had to fill out that was basically, 'you can place your own conditions on the license.' I thought about putting on something like 'room must be clean and chores must be done' but that would be wrong.

No personal interview. One reference person. I asked if they needed to talk to my wife, and they said 'Nope, she signed your form, we're good.'

Not a lot of crunch to that video, I have to say. Didn't answer any questions that a new buyer might have, just a quick guide on disassembly and some slo-mo shots of a guy running around with one. Bonus points for the Pip-Boy watch face, though.

First you need to call the RCMP yourself and get the reference number for your references to, well, reference, when they call in to give a reference in reference to your reference number. Keep this post for future reference.

It really can't be stated enough that the course is dead simple to pass. Arguably, too simple to pass. The instructor wants you to pass. None of the questions are 'gotchas' or designed to trip you up or trick you; some of them are written awkwardly or stupidly, but it's just awkward writing...

It's like passing a driving test. Do everything slow and exaggerated, and narrate what you're doing. Keep an eye on your instructor, they'll probably be giving you little cues. Remember, kids take the same PAL course adults do, and they pass it all the time. Don't point the test firearm...

Crom forbid that this become one of those forums where there's 12 vertical inches of signature for every freakin' post.

Can't join a range until you have a PAL, so that ain't it. You'd call up your MP, hopefully conservative, and ask why a government bureaucrat has taken six months to read a form, type twelve things into a database, click the 'search criminal records' button, and then click the 'submit to...

They'll either call you, or mail you, yes. Eventually. Wait a week or two, then call them, and ask for a status update, and if they need anything else from you. Eventually, they'll say something like 'we're ready to call your references, but we're backed up. Have one of your references call...

Voted. Somebody's going to wind up needing a hug.

Carry on, my wayward son. Just make sure you understand what using Tor or a proxy is actually doing or not doing for you.

You do realize, of course, that by using a third party Tor or proxy, you're simply moving where the logs wind up? But if you want to, and have one you trust, you go right ahead. No rules against it, and even if there were, they'd be awfully hard to enforce.

Security through Obscurity is no security at all; just ask an ostrich. (Yes, yes, I know.) However, this doesn't mean you need to advertise anything. Would you feel the need to warn your neighbours about, oh, the chemicals under your sink? The workshop full of tools? The sacks of...