89 year old harassed by the Registry

Just venting here... But, I need to get this off my chest...

The background on this story... A little more than 2 years ago I helped a family friend sell off his firearms. I distinctly remember placing the adds here on CGN, receiving the offers from the potential new owners, running those offers by our family friend & helping him transfer EACH one to their new owners... I then helped him box them up & ship them to their new homes...

Tonight I get a phone call from him & he's worried about a letter the CFC just sent him... To paraphrase, it says because his firearm license has expired, he can no longer be in possession of the Nylon 66 that is STILL registered in his name!!! And it gives him several options to come into compliance... bla bla bla

What a complete CROCK! That gun was transferred to A NEW OWNER over 2 years ago!!!

Lucky for him, he says he kept the paperwork! Now I have to go over there & see just what paperwork he kept... Keep in mind that this gentleman is quite advanced in age & I'm unsure about exactly what paperwork he might have...

2 BILLION DOLLARS FOLKS!!! And not a single good thing has come out of this registry other than to hassel the law abiding segment of society!!!

Thousands of ghost guns registered to business!

I remember hearing that the record for "ghost guns" was held by an auctioneer in Alberta. He was getting close to retirement and was winding up the business. He contacted the RCMP to talk about handing back his firearms business license and winding up his business and discovered that he still "had" several THOUSAND guns in his inventory.

All of them were sold and legally transfered and the new owners probably all had valid reg certs, but they had not removed them from his file. (I understand that this was common under the old "green sheet" system).

The NFA had a story of a legal case where a guy in the maritimes (a cop no less) was charged because he had allegedly moved, changed his address and moved a handgun without authourisation. Turned out at trial that there were three existing reg certs, one for him at his old address, one for a gun dealer to whom he had at one time consigned it, and the current reg cert that HE HAD IN HIS POSSESSION for HIS NEW ADDRESS, but that the RCMP had no record of in THEIR files (again, this was under the "old" system).

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Gun never transferred, despite paperwork saying so.

I just asked for a re-issue of all my registration certificates, to make sure CFC was up-to-date on my files (without the lengthy wait for a FOI request).

APPARENTLY I STILL OWN A BERETTA 686 THAT I TRANSFERRED IN 2008!

I am LOOKING at the TRANSFER NOTIFICATION (SELLER) FROM THE RCMP, SAYING THE TRANSFER IS VALID! It is literally IN MY HANDS right now.

Needless to say, first thing Monday the CFC is getting a phone call to resolve this - and if they don't, then they'll be dealing with one angry fellow. When the transfer is approved, and complete, and I have a NOTICE of same... WHY is this gun still on my record???

26 Ghost guns a year at one store!!!!!!

A firearms dealer ran a check. He asked Ottawa for a list of all registered firearms that Ottawa thought were in his store. The list, when it arrived, included over 200 firearms that were not in his store – ghost guns. He learned that ghost guns were accumulating in his store at an average of 26 firearms a year. All the ghost guns had been legally sold and correctly transferred – but the government’s sloppy firearms control system often failed to delete the record that the firearm was owned by the dealer and located in his store. He “had” over 200 guns, shown in Ottawa’s records as being in his store that were not actually there. He laboriously proved to Ottawa that every one of them was gone, and settled back, satisfied that he had solved the problem. He hadn’t. He ran the same exercise again, a few years later. This time there were even more ghost guns registered to his store. The dealer gave up. He keeps his own records, and has no faith in Ottawa’s records

Still your gun? But I sold it years ago!!

It's crap. Traded a pistol to a dealer then when I requested new certs it was still in my name 8 months later....oh and as a cop, never assisted in any investigation. They don't even return calls half the time, the other half they have no info. Waste of money.