Stupidity of ASFCP and Public Safety

[u/sushicake1]

I know I'm gonna get hate for this, but I signed up to turn my rifle in. I haven't shot it in many years even prior to the "buyback" and was already thinking about selling it before the stupid Liberals decided to think all black guns were scary.

Now I have a newborn on the way now so might as well sell it and spend that money on diapers and baby stuff. The price they offered wasn't far from what I was going to sell it for anyways.

But my main grievance is that I followed all the steps and signed up before any deadlines for the compensation program. Tried to setup an appointment weeks in advance of my areas collection. But when I go to setup an appointment the stupid website won't allow me to book an actual appointment saying something along the lines of "the number of firearms I have exceeds the amount they can process at a single time" or something like that. But I only have the one firearm... Hell they even mailed me the box.

So I called the hotline to ask what was going on, and their answer is "public safety will call you within 10 business days" that was over a month and a half ago. My collection period has come and gone and has moved almost 2 hours away from my house now.

What options do I have now?

EDIT/UPDATE: Just got off the phone with the Hotline, apparently public safety decided to move my collection location a little bit closer to my house. Still about an hour and a half drive, I spoke with them on the phone last time on September 1st and they stated that public safety would email me or call me. But apparently 3 hours later they decided to just change my location without notifying me. So here I am a week later still expecting a call or email, just to find out my location changed and I try to setup an appointment and of course there's no slots available...

[u/Agonizing-Stroke1812]

The same thing happened to me and the only option was to go or forgo payment. It is in their interest for you to not go so that they don't have to pay you anything. For one rifle though I probably wouldn't bother TBH unless it's very valuable in terms of comp amount. If it's a more common gun you'll be getting what $250/hr at best? Depends if it's worth the time for you

[u/sushicake1 → u/Agonizing-Stroke1812]

They offered me 950 for it and I'm not bothered by traveling 2 hours to turn it in. It's just the fact that my wife is heavily pregnant and I dont know when or where I have to drop the rifle off. If this pushes to close to her due date or beyond it I have no choice but to withdraw if this can't be solved before then.