PAL renewal retarded...

I would be buying a gun safe....and clearing out the other side of the bed instead!!!

It's too bad more people didn't have the discussion with a potential mate BEFORE they decided to get together. I guess,in a lot of cases,people decided to get into hunting/target shooting/firearms ownership after the fact which could,for some folks,be a real deal breaker. We all know that no matter how much logic and common sense we use with our mates,we might as well pee into the wind,especially, if it becomes a "control" issue,blowing out of proportion and defying all logic.

Yep!! Anyone with a valid POL can now buy a rifle with it. When you renew your POL, you will automatically get a PAL.

Just my opinion but you should know when your PAL expires and be on top of renewing it. There really is no excuse to let it expire.

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Originally Posted by trimmer21

It's too bad more people didn't have the discussion with a potential mate BEFORE they decided to get together. I guess,in a lot of cases,people decided to get into hunting/target shooting/firearms ownership after the fact which could,for some folks,be a real deal breaker. We all know that no matter how much logic and common sense we use with our mates,we might as well pee into the wind,especially, if it becomes a "control" issue,blowing out of proportion and defying all logic.

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Before we got to the point of discussing marriage, I took her out bird hunting a few times, she got her hunting licence and FAC. Pretty hard for her to say she doesn't feel comfortable around guns. Once the kids came around, she doesn't hunt anymore, her FAC turned into a POL and now a PAL with the recent legislation,

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Originally Posted by twostroke

just helped my 76 r old father in law renew is POL lisence and from what I gathered he will now be grandfathered into a PAL lisence....is POL was not expired but he was still forced to go thru the complete new applicant process...with the picture...60 dollar fee.....and fill out a several page application......he has had a POL since being a teen (so been around a while)

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POL has been available since 1994.
Stu.

POLs have only been around since the 90s. Prior to that was the FAC system

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Originally Posted by twostroke

just helped my 76 r old father in law renew is POL lisence and from what I gathered he will now be grandfathered into a PAL lisence....is POL was not expired but he was still forced to go thru the complete new applicant process...with the picture...60 dollar fee.....and fill out a several page application......he has had a POL since being a teen (so been around a while)

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Originally Posted by blasted_saber

POLs have only been around since the 90s. Prior to that was the FAC system

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Which so many have forgotten was for the acquisition only. And then ownership of firearms was criminalized with the POL and PAL.

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Originally Posted by blasted_saber

POLs have only been around since the 90s. Prior to that was the FAC system

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The FAC was a joke, if you had no criminal record you could get one for I think $15 bucks, you didn't have to have any firearms courses just no record, and you were free to buy any long gun that wasn't restricted, they never kept track of the people that got an FAC , only the ones who were denied one....

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Originally Posted by bdog

The FAC was a joke, if you had no criminal record you could get one for I think $15 bucks, you didn't have to have any firearms courses just no record, and you were free to buy any long gun that wasn't restricted, they never kept track of the people that got an FAC , only the ones who were denied one....

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Why was that a joke?