How Long to Receive Registration Certificate?

[SeirX]

Well, being new to the bureaucracy of firearms.....there's a lot I don't understand-in-full as of yet.

"...authorize the transport of restricted and/or prohibited firearms registered to the licence holder ...."
That bit there says to me that I should have received a form or certificate or *something* with an official-registration kind of thing on it..a simple bit of text I could have printed off at home doesn't seem like it would cut it, should things go south with a 'peace' officer.

Maybe my expectations are higher than the reality of the thing.

[RangeBob]

Well, being new to the bureaucracy of firearms.....there's a lot I don't understand-in-full as of yet.
"...authorize the transport of restricted and/or prohibited firearms registered to the licence holder ...."
That bit there says to me that I should have received a form or certificate or *something* with an official-registration kind of thing on it..a simple bit of text I could have printed off at home doesn't seem like it would cut it, should things go south with a 'peace' officer.

When the CFO authorizes the transfer, you should get information about the transfer authorization approval, usually some sort of a document faxed or emailed to you before you can pick up the restricted firearm, and it will have a registration certificate number on it. This is not a registration certificate, but because you have the registration certificate number a police officer can use the CFRO (Canadian Firearms Registry Online) to look up in the CFP (Canadian Firearms Program) database that your firearm is registered.

Within about two weeks of the transfer, and thus about two weeks after you've brought the firearm home, you should receive in the snail mail two letters. The first an envelope from the RCMP saying that you will receive your registration certificate tomorrow. The second an envelope with a green piece of paper from the RCMP with the registration certificate in it. This is just a one sided letter on piece of paper which you may photocopy, and cut out the tiny card sized portion of the paper that is the registration certificate. I keep a copy in my files, a copy in my secure storage, a copy in my wallet, and a copy in my firearms transport opaque case. This is the one that you must keep on you whenever you transport your firearms, so that you can present it to the officer "on demand" as required by Law.