The bureaucracy and the attitude there in that was identified by A-G Sheila Fraser as a major impediment to gun owner compliance as in the situation described below:
My latest conversation with gun control bureaucrats:
"Good Morning, RCMP Firearms Centre"
"Good Morning. I have a small problem. My license is broken, the actual card has broken in two, so I need it replaced."
"When does it expire?"
"Oct. 26, 2013"
"Oh. I will have to send you a form which you fill out and mail to us with your license"
"I have to send you my license?"
"Yes, we can't have two licenses out at once"
"But then I won't have a license" (and will be in violation of the law)
"That's right."
" Nevermind. You people are idiots"
Click
Like, what the hell is wrong with mailing out a license to the address they have listed by registered mail, thus having me sign for it........and making it clear the old license has to be destroyed????
Quicker.
Cheaper.
In full compliance with the law.
But it means I have to be treated as if I were trustworthy.....and all gun owners must be treated worse than criminals. Or made criminals by listening to the idiots from the RCMP.
"Sorry officer, I don't have my license, I mailed it to you guys."
Yeah, right.
I just know it is in the small print somewhere. Gun owners are to be treated like criminally insane children
AND there are lots of people out there that require a Firearms License to work.....I was one for many years, and you don't have to be carrying a pistol. Simply handling firearms in a store requires you to be licensed....
Idiotic......and just one example of many.
Sorry dude I have to call bull**** on this one. If you lost your license then you couldn't mail it in. So it's silly to ask someone to send in a license to be replaced. If this is a fact then the guy you were talking to must be misinformed. Not the first time. You can if you like download the form from the RCMP website, fill it out and have replacement sent out to your home.
Further there is a damaged box under reasons to replace license and no requirement to send in the damaged one.
So when you act like criminally insane children you have to expect to be treated that way.
Go nuts!
http://www.rcmp-grc.gc.ca/cfp-pcaf/form-formulaire/pdfs/718-eng.pdf