Ghost firearms, long transfers, etc

I had a Ruger 10/22 LR, registered with the wrong serial number on the registration card. Tried to advise the CFC of their error, after numerous attempts (buisy signals phone calls, 2 letters over 2 yrs), it took approx. 5 yrs for the CFC to send me a revised registration card. I kept all my paperwork in case I was stopped by Police. What could I have done, I called them xxx, wrote them xx, having correct registration/serial numbers were not a priority to them??? Registration saves lives?, I don't think so!
-- bush24

The CFC still has a restricted firearm registered to me that I never owned...a site sponsor sold me a restricted firearm and accidentally transferred two of the same model to me even though I ordered and recieved only one. The vendor immediately corrected the mistake on their end, we re-transferred this "ghost" firearm back to them, and still, even though I have the paperwork showing it was transferred back to the vendor, it came up as registered to me during a recent discussion with the CFC. At this point, the CFC database has no credibility whatsoever...
-- shootemup

I recently had a new barrel installed on a rifle.
It wound up being longer than original. I did my homework and research and since the rifle was originally purchased in the mid 90's there was already record of it so i did as i figured was the right thing. I contacted the local RCMP Firearms office, asked what i needed to do, she said come down, have it measured and verified to correct the original dimensions. I figured no problem, this isn't so bad.
Your registry paper work says barrel length is greater than whatever the default measurement is on that form, but they have record of the exact length which makes me wonder right there why our own paper work can't have the correct data.
Second, she proceeded to screw together a metal cleaning rod to insert it in the end of my new Krieger barrel, i said "no, no..............you won't be doing that, " luckily I had my wooden dowel emergency measuring stick with me, i took care of that myself.
Ok, so, all this was fine and dandy, no big deal.
So, she proceeded to verify all information, guess what , they didn't have the correct serial number that was on the rifle.
So for 15 years i had in my possession A rifle that belonged to no one. What if I ever had been stopped and their records on file indicate that wasn't my firearm? Would that have been an expensive and nightmarish situation. not any fault of my own. Can't imagine how bad this could have got.
-- Kelly Timoffee

I purchased a P-38 from Tradex as a "collectors piece", took EIGHT MONTHS before they approved the transfer!-- Griffoneur

Long time coming

The last day you had to register your guns (Dec 31-2003 I think?) a friend submitted a registration online for a .22 rifle. He waited and waited, and just sort of forgot about it for a bit, since the rifle was sitting in a gun safe locked up in my closet and he wasn't shooting anymore... He kept a copy of the confirmation that the registration had been completed.

After a year or so buddy starts to get a little worried about the whole thing. He's got this rifle sitting around, and hadn't heard anything from the CFC. Tried calling them a few times, but was never able to get through. Sent an email, which was never heard back on either. At this point he was debating the wisdom of following up on this thing too aggressively. He was getting pretty nervous so he destroyed the gun. He was going to toss the whole thing when it was chopped up but decided to keep the cut up receiver with the serial number on it, just in case.

Friend gets back into shooting, registered a few guns and what arrives in the mail one day but a registration certificate for the .22... 4 years and 11 months after originally submitted the registration form online. Now that's government efficiency. So now he's got a little piece of metal with a serial # sitting in a box in the safe with a registration form attached to it, and a lot of questions about why, if the CFC had this gun sitting in their records for all this time, they'd never tried to track him down, or you know, call or anything. This is proof to me that the registry... Sort of works? I guess? Eventually sometimes? Personally if I spent billions on something I'd expect better. Must be nice to work for the government.
-- themarauder (CGN)

The federal law is not applied equally province to province, and artificial holds are applied as penalties by the whims of various provincial CFOs for no good reason. DISCRETIONALY POWER gives CFOs the ability to play God.
e.g. AR15 registrations take 3 to 6 months in Quebec, as opposed to 2-3 days elsewhere in Canada.
(an irrelevant licencing example: A request to change to "Collectors Status" has been going on for 8 MONTHS now, as opposed to a week max in other provinces.)