This action negatively affects the speed with which the transfer takes place, and the original matter has to be re-investigated or at least reviewed. Surely, this is not how the system was designed to work. The transfer is then forwarded to the Chief Firearms Office in Ontario for approval of the transfer and required purpose. This step normally took approximately one half hour to complete provided there were no snags in the transfer. The Registrar reviews the transfer application, decides whether or not it meets their own criteria for the transfer of the firearm from one individual to another or business, as the case may be, reruns the CPIC checks and conducts their own investigation, after all this has already been done by the CFO for Ontario, and then they approve or refuse the transfer.
Transfers now take up to three days to complete.
The sale or purchase of houses can take less time. Firearms businesses are closing because of the difficulty in dealing with this legislation as is presently constituted. This is outrageous. CFRS was introduced to the firearms community around October 1998, prior to the program being fully developed and adequate modules available. Once the program was implemented, it repeatedly froze at the training sessions being provided to the different Provincial CFO staff.