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How to get a handgun license in Canada:
1. Pass the Canada Firearms Safety Exam
2. Pass the Canada Restricted Firearms Safety Exam
3. Obtain an Application for a Restricted Possessio
n and Acquisition License from the Canada
Firearms Centre.
4. Provide a verified photograph
5. Provide two personal references that have known
the applicant at least two years. These references
are checked and extensively questioned regarding th
e Applicants history and any possible pre-
disposition to violence or criminal activity.
6. Disclose all mental health information.
7. Disclose the names and contact information of al
l conjugal partners in the last two years. These
former and current partners are contacted to see if
they have any concerns regarding the
individual’s acquisition of a firearm.
8. Disclose whether the Applicant has suffered a ma
rital breakdown or a breakdown of a significant
relationship, job loss or bankruptcy or other traum
atic event in the last two years.
9. Disclose whether you have threatened or attempte
d suicide, any consultation or treatment for
alcohol, substance abuse, and behavioural or emotio
nal problems in the last 5 years.
10. Disclose whether you do you know if you have be
en reported to the police or social services for
violence, threatened or attempted violence, or othe
r conflict in your home or elsewhere in the last 5
years?
11. Have a criminal records background check throug
h your local police service, the O.P.P., the
R.C.M.P., C.S.I.S. and Interpol. This background c
heck includes all charges, convictions and
inquiries, juvenile and adult, federal, provincial
and international.
12. Be approved by the Ontario Chief Firearms Offic
e (O.P.P.) and submitted back to the Canada
Firearms Centre (R.C.M.P.)
13. Wait a mandatory 28 days (closer to three to si
x months)
14. Receive the new license by mail.
15. At the firearms retailer, the retailer and the
Canada Firearms Centre check the license validity
again. The ownership of the firearm is transferred
to the purchaser.
16. The purchaser must then wait 2 to 6 weeks for t
he Chief Firearms Office to issue an
Authorization
to Transport
the firearm from the retailer to the purchaser’s h
ome.
17. To shoot the firearm the individual MUST: Join
a licensed gun club, pass the minimum number of
probationary shoots, pass the club’s range safety c
ourse, apply through the club for an
Authorization to Transport for the Purposes of Targ
et Shooting
and wait one to three months
for that document to be issued.
18. To acquire ammunition, the individual must pres
ent to the retailer a valid Firearms License and
have their name, address, license number and items
purchased recorded in a logbook.
19. Issuance of a Firearms License automatically en
ters the individual into the
Continuous Eligibility
System
, which cross-references every police computer and
database in Canada at all times.
2. Pass the Canada Restricted Firearms Safety Exam
3. Obtain an Application for a Restricted Possessio
n and Acquisition License from the Canada
Firearms Centre.
4. Provide a verified photograph
5. Provide two personal references that have known
the applicant at least two years. These references
are checked and extensively questioned regarding th
e Applicants history and any possible pre-
disposition to violence or criminal activity.
6. Disclose all mental health information.
7. Disclose the names and contact information of al
l conjugal partners in the last two years. These
former and current partners are contacted to see if
they have any concerns regarding the
individual’s acquisition of a firearm.
8. Disclose whether the Applicant has suffered a ma
rital breakdown or a breakdown of a significant
relationship, job loss or bankruptcy or other traum
atic event in the last two years.
9. Disclose whether you have threatened or attempte
d suicide, any consultation or treatment for
alcohol, substance abuse, and behavioural or emotio
nal problems in the last 5 years.
10. Disclose whether you do you know if you have be
en reported to the police or social services for
violence, threatened or attempted violence, or othe
r conflict in your home or elsewhere in the last 5
years?
11. Have a criminal records background check throug
h your local police service, the O.P.P., the
R.C.M.P., C.S.I.S. and Interpol. This background c
heck includes all charges, convictions and
inquiries, juvenile and adult, federal, provincial
and international.
12. Be approved by the Ontario Chief Firearms Offic
e (O.P.P.) and submitted back to the Canada
Firearms Centre (R.C.M.P.)
13. Wait a mandatory 28 days (closer to three to si
x months)
14. Receive the new license by mail.
15. At the firearms retailer, the retailer and the
Canada Firearms Centre check the license validity
again. The ownership of the firearm is transferred
to the purchaser.
16. The purchaser must then wait 2 to 6 weeks for t
he Chief Firearms Office to issue an
Authorization
to Transport
the firearm from the retailer to the purchaser’s h
ome.
17. To shoot the firearm the individual MUST: Join
a licensed gun club, pass the minimum number of
probationary shoots, pass the club’s range safety c
ourse, apply through the club for an
Authorization to Transport for the Purposes of Targ
et Shooting
and wait one to three months
for that document to be issued.
18. To acquire ammunition, the individual must pres
ent to the retailer a valid Firearms License and
have their name, address, license number and items
purchased recorded in a logbook.
19. Issuance of a Firearms License automatically en
ters the individual into the
Continuous Eligibility
System
, which cross-references every police computer and
database in Canada at all times.
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