Importing License
 

What is the license called you need to hold in order to import airsoft guns in canada? If you have a restricted firearms license can you import for your own personal use? Not for re-sale is the question. I'm asking because it turns out my girlfriends dad has a firearms license.

You need a business firearms license and you will never get it cuz the RCMP is retarded. And you cant have it for personal use cuz you need to have a business location that is not ur home. THE END.

No, No, and No. You can not import airsoft if you have a firearms licence.

1. Business Firearms Licence.

2. R-PAL has absolutely nothing to do with importing airsoft.

no you cannot use your PAL or RPAL for importing airsoft, you must have a Business Firearm Licence (BFL) to do so, and it is hard to get one as you must actually own a prop company or be involved in film/tv production to even have your application considered.

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http://www.airsoftcanada.com/showthread.php?t=51609

Read here please.

No. Importing requires a business firearms license. And not just any license. It has to allow for the importation od prohibited items for film / tv production.

There is currently no way to import airsoft for personal use unless it has a clear receiver.

No, you are way, way WAY off the mark.

The license is a Firearms Business License (for which you need an established, actual brick-and-mortar building) with a special license to import movie props (which, last time I heard, were not being issued anymore). The license also costs several thousand a year.

I think he got the message by now that it is a business firearms license not a restricted one. lol

it sound like there is lots of mixed opinions here. im not talking about a business license. For example my girlfriend grandfather in Edmonton just passed away and he collected replica guns and has one of the biggest replica gun collections in Canada. Some if not all were imported form the US. I'm assuming all gun get stopped at the border but if you appeal with a firearms license will you not be aloud to keep it. Im not considering this as an option but i spoke to him on the phone and he ask...i didn't know the answer...sounds a bit all over the map. Not a straight yes or no. Sounds like its a matter of the situation?

There is no mixed opinion, you need to sharpen your reading skills. Everyone has said the exact same thing.

As for your girlfriend's grandfather, he's a grandfather, so he's old. Which he means likely acquired his collection prior to the law on replica firearms (1995/8). Also, I'm betting a good number of what you think are replica firearms are actually deactivated firearms.

This is a straight yes/no situation. No.

I might be mistaken about this but I think the law states that firearms and replica frearms can't be passed on in a will or inheritance. My uncle had an antique colt peace maker. And when he passed away even though my cousin also has a permit, he was not allowed to keep it.

Just curious here... Whats in the collection? Which guns, (or rocket launchers, i doubt it though)

You can "grandfather" (pass down within the family) prohibited firearms. It's the only way civilians can privately get prohibited firearms since about the 1970s.

You cannot grandfather replica firearms.

by mixed opinion i don't mean mixed answers. if you read most of the above people disagree slightly about it. i Finished reading mcguyverpost and that is what i was looking for in an answer. I can do without the sly remarks about reading skills. As i said in my 1st question is was geared towards my girlfriends dad and not myself. I am in no way interested in importing guns. This topic i see is a bit touchy so ill leave it at that. Thank you...most of you for your input.

You're a little confused, perhaps it's our fault for leaving out an important piece of the puzzle.

There is no individual licencing for importing replica firearms. The only licence available for importing replica firearms is for businesses, hence the Business Firearms Licence.

You could have a PAL for prohibited firearms, and you still wouldn't be able to import replica firearms for your own use.

one would think that but maybe not.


If you haven't clued in yet, you need a special firearms licence, you are more likely to win the lotto then to get one. If it was easy everyone would have one.

He died less then a month ago and my girlfriend and i are heading to Edmonton to sort out all his guns and other stuff. Most are western style pistols. He was a leather smith so he made holsters as well. I guess the collection is over 500 guns. Sound like it will be a interesting collection

Sweet. Post some pics of the collection here on ASC. :D

I dont understand the reason for the sarcastic comments....from the staff here no less. "sigh" I guess some questions are better left unasked. I appreciate the help mcguyver,notom66866,burningashes,Crunchmeister and kalnaren.

Gramps Guns
 

Will do.

lol everyone said the exact same thing NO, this whole thing isn't about opinions it is yes and no, a Business Firearms Licence is what is required to import Airsoft or Replica firearms, you didn't ask about importing real firearms did you?

your reading skills are highly suspect if it took you that long to realize that the answer is NO