r/canadaguns • u/AutoModerator • Jul 10 '22

Weekly Newbies & FAQ Thread - Post your questions here for PAL/RPAL application, timelines, CFSC/CFSRC, references & requirements, or general new to firearms ownership -type questions

This thread will be used for the "new"-type questions, PAL/RPAL applications, references, CFSC/CFRSC requirements, storage/transport, or other general "new-to-me" firearms ownership questions.

In response to this thread, the community was quite positive for a thread to cover these subjects.

These threads will be stickied for a week, renewing every Sunday @ about 0600 AST. Previous threads here. Take a look, your question may have been answered!

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u/ElectronicSherbert80 Jul 13 '22

The CFO phone line is a joke. Wait on hold for 30 mins to an hour and then get cutoff every single time with either "sorry, system error. Call back later", or sometimes nothing at all, just cuts. Other times I don't even get the privilege of waiting on hold, I just get told "we're busy, call another day". WTF is going on over there, I can't spend my entire day waiting on hold just to get cutoff

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u/goomba008 Jul 13 '22

I feel your pain. Do you work on a computer, or somewhere you can leave your phone on speaker for a while? I made a post about a month ago about how to use an auto-dialer app for this purpose: https://www.reddit.com/r/canadaguns/comments/vb7rx7/weekly_politics_thread/iclyev2/?context=3

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u/ElectronicSherbert80 Jul 13 '22

I'll look into that auto-dialer. Super helpful, thanks!

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u/yukukaze233 Jul 13 '22

called 9.30 and got "high call volume" lol