r/canadaguns • u/goshathegreat • Jun 05 '26

Feets / Collection / My build Now the wait begins…

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u/Vintage_Pieces_10 Jun 05 '26

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

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u/No-Specialist2593 Jun 05 '26

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?

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u/Vintage_Pieces_10 Jun 05 '26

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)

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u/WALRUS1902033 Jun 05 '26

No way, so that means slim light at the end of the tunnel to have a 9mm hand gun?