Mounties ban Canadians from obtaining guns
https://globalnews.ca/news/6706985/coronavirus-firearms-and-ammo-sales-spike-across-canada-amid-covid-19-gun-law-fears/
>March 20 those who already had their PALs (Possession and Acquisition License) began stockpiling ammo:
https://thegunblog.ca/2020/03/25/rcmp-it-has-been-recommended-to-stop-gun-safety-courses-on-covid-19/
>March 25 the Mounties publish a "recommedation" that the MANDATORY safety course needed to acquire a PAL stopped being offered to "prevent contamination
https://www.rcmp-grc.gc.ca/en/firearms/impacts-services-due-the-coronavirus-disease-covid-19
>March 31 the RCMP says they're suspended firearm license renewals
http://www.fseso.org/
>as of now (unclear when they updated) FSESO (Firearms Safety Education Service of Ontario) is closed indefinitely at the instruction of the provincial government.
So:
>1) even if you have a license, you can't renew it when it expires
>2) you can't apply for a license if you just passed the course
>3) you can't even take the course
I am raging at myself for having put this off and not having done this course and gotten a license and stockpiled a dozen rifles in a locker and trained my family to shoot, we're all fucked now.