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)
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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