Competition. Must have RPAL, be a member of a shooting club, and be a member of the Shooting Federation of Canada I believe. Also, I believe it only exempts you from buying .22 pistols. I don’t have one, this is only what a gathered from doing my own personal research. If anyone has better info please correct me.
I have my exemption but I’m not a member of the shooting federation of Canada, just BCTSA. Generally it limits you to .22 pistols, but there is a part of the exemption where you can apply for higher calibers. Easy to do in Alberta, harder to do here in BC, and unknown in the rest of Canada
Can you specify on what you mean by there’s a part of the exemption that would allow you to apply for higher calibres? Has this been done within Alberta yet?
So the exemption letter for BC (under the sports reason) will allow you to apply for higher calibers. However, another coach’s signature is needed (for the .22 exemption, a coach wasn’t necessary even if it states so on the paperwork [this was confirmed when I emailed BCTSA and they replied a coach wasn’t necessary for .22s]).
Thehuntinggearguy in Alberta said that Alberta’s CFO will approve higher calibers for exempted sporting individuals much more freely than BC (or elsewhere in Canada so it seems)
Correct yes, you do need to be a member of some sort of firing range or rod and gun club. You also have to be a member of BCTSA (50$), but I signed up the night before and submitted my paperwork the next day and got it
I thought the gun club needs to be associated with the shooting association no? And not all clubs are ? That was my understanding anyways. Maybe someone smarter can clarify?
I got the exemption WITHOUT disclosing what range I belonged to (I wasn’t hiding it, I just forgot). You have to list the range however when doing a restricted transfer. It does so happen that my range is affiliated, but I listed it after I already received my exemption
So just to be clear , if I am member of a range who isn't affiliated with the shooting association, you can still get this exemption ? If so that's sweet. I was trying to look into this a while ago and it seemed only one range in the BC lower mainland was affiliated with the shooting association and it was kind of far.
As far as I know yes, since I filled mine out before announcing what range I was a part of. When you go through the signup on the BCTSA website, it’ll have various boxes to fill in before you pay the membership, just to be sure
So if your club isn't affiliated with BCSTA, then getting a membership directly with BCSTA fulfills requirements to get exemption ? You can be with any club in BC?
Not exactly, the exemption form states that you WISH to compete or train in the discipline (on the handgun exemption page of the BCTSA website, they explain a little bit of the process)
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u/Vintage_Pieces_10 Jun 05 '26
Sweet as. I ordered me a ruger mk4 22/45 with my exemption. Waiting on irunguns right now myself