r/canadaguns • u/AutoModerator • Feb 12 '23

Weekly Newbies & FAQ Thread - Post your questions here for PAL/RPAL application, timelines, CFSC/CFSRC, references & requirements, or general new to firearms ownership -type questions

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u/UnderstandingFirm432 Feb 13 '23

Question about getting a restricted. It has been asked here before, but I didn't save it.

Once you get the restricted, do I need to fill out any other form (transportation) or anything like that? What does the process look like? After it is approved, do they send out another document (to be kept with license)?

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u/RydNightwish Feb 13 '23

So in alberta at least the process goes like this: buy pew - wait for email confirming transfer approved and the letter that is the ATT from store to home only - wait for your registration papers in the mail - take new pew with your rpal, registration and paper sheet that came with rpal conditions to range.

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u/UnderstandingFirm432 Feb 13 '23

There's a paper sheet that came with rpal?

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u/RydNightwish Feb 13 '23

Yes. The sheet that the card was glued to had a list of conditions and requirements on it such as keeping the card and paper together to act as your range use ATT.

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u/UnderstandingFirm432 Feb 13 '23

The paper mentions to inform address change within 30 days as standard and "carry this" under special. Nothing about ATT or anything close to it.

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u/RydNightwish Feb 13 '23 edited Feb 13 '23

Shortened for space but actual lines from the special conditions sheet in front of me now:

- transport of restricted firearms registered to the license holder within their province of residence by reasonably direct route.

- transport of restricted firearms possessed for the purpose of target practice to and from all shooting ranges

- transport to and from a business that repairs or appraises

- transport to and from a gun show

- transport to and from a port of exit or from a port of entry

-carry this document with your license as you must be able to produce it on demand of a peace officer.

The only thing not mentioned here is that the initial transport from a store is done via the one time approval ATT that they will mail or email to you so you can bring it home from the gun store.

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u/UnderstandingFirm432 Feb 13 '23

That's the thing. Mine doesn't have those lines except for the last "carry this document" one.

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u/ShinigamiZR Feb 14 '23

Your first license only comes with the PAL conditions. Once you buy your first restricted, you get a new license which comes with another copy of the paper with additional conditions mentioned (excluding the ones that were removed)

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u/GinnAdvent Feb 14 '23

If it's mailed to you, you just have to wait for it to show up at your place.

If you have to go and pick it up, just print out your transfer paper from CFO, and bring one lock and one trigger lock with you when you pick it up.

Also, PAL and that piece of paper with list of conditions.

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u/UnderstandingFirm432 Feb 14 '23

"If you have to go and pick it up, just print out your transfer paper from CFO, and bring one lock and one trigger lock with you when you pick it up."

Same if picking it up from the post office?

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u/GinnAdvent Feb 14 '23

Ah, this one is a bit of gray area and there are 2 argument for it.

The post office has no idea what's inside, all their job is to make you sign for signatures and might do COD, and that's about it. You don't have to bring PAL.

However, on the off chance I might get stopped by RCMP, I still bring my PAL and papers just in case.

The other camp said you are suppose to request another ATT to get it from post office back to home in addition to being PAL and papers.

Just a note to add, when I got my PS90 from post office, it was not in any locked box except it can with the same cardboard packaging, and the firearm inside was not triggered locked.

But if it was PAL owner to PAL owner, i think it needs to be locked and triggered locked. At least for my own understanding