r/canadaguns • u/TheRealRyan24 • Apr 24 '26

Application / Regulation advice How to register an old firearm.

I have a friend whose dad has had possession of his grandparents old 22 and 12 ga for decades but the parent has not had a pal and they believe the guns are currently unregistered. Is there a proper way for my friend to takeover possession of these guns. (Sidenote the guns have sat way away in storage for literal decades and have not been fired in that time)

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u/Familiar_Hunt_5164 Apr 24 '26

On a side note, In Quebec I believe I read somewhere that only around 21% of owned NR firearms have been registered with the SIAF since its creation.

Someone please correct me if I'm wrong. FYI, I am in no way shape or form suggesting anything illegal. I'm just stating what I have read on the interwebz.

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u/prosper_0 Apr 24 '26

depending on the source of that number, it could be waaaay overstated, too. Even under the federal registration program, a TON of folks never bothered to register them for whatever reason, and there's really no way of knowing how many of them there are. Same deal applies to quebec: you can't produce any sort of numbers that aren't based on wild-ass guesses because there's no knowing just how many folk just never reported anything.

Personal experience, but I don't know any older-aged person who'd bothered with registration around here. Even PALs were 'optional' in their eyes. "I'd had a FAC, and that's always been good enough." Farmers, hunters, rural folks, grandfather-types - just didn't see any point in registration. The only ones who did were younger shooters just getting into things, because buying a new gun from the store pretty much automatically was registered.