card swipe to buy a rifle

Crankbait · #1 03-08-2018, 07:56 PM

is anybody familiar with this?
is it already a thing?
swipe your pal and info goes to rcmp during your purchase.

6MT · #2 03-08-2018, 08:12 PM

Eh...? What province is this happening in?

Crankbait · #3 03-08-2018, 08:18 PM

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Originally Posted by 6MT

Eh...? What province is this happening in?

I'm assuming everywhere.

just asking around

Jeron Kahyar · #4 03-08-2018, 08:21 PM

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Originally Posted by Crankbait

I'm assuming everywhere.

just asking around

Never heard of this. Also what are you swiping this card on? If I recall there is no mag strip nor barcode to scan.

6MT · #5 03-08-2018, 08:23 PM

Yeah, I've never heard of this either.

Crankbait · #6 03-08-2018, 08:24 PM

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Originally Posted by Jeron Kahyar

Never heard of this. Also what are you swiping this card on? If I recall there is no mag strip nor barcode to scan.

I'm not swiping.

will future cards have a mag strip?

-JR- · #7 03-08-2018, 08:28 PM

If you have a PAL or even a POL . I think the RCMP all ready know you have a rifle

Its the people that have riffles and no PAL or POL the RCPM worry about.

tool · #8 03-08-2018, 08:31 PM

The POL no longer exists, the Harper government decided anyone with a POL might as well have a PAL.

covey ridge · #9 03-11-2018, 11:47 AM

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Originally Posted by Jeron Kahyar

Never heard of this. Also what are you swiping this card on? If I recall there is no mag strip nor barcode to scan.

I have a bar code on my pal. Once when I was at a UFA farm store I saw a salesman scan the back of a pal when another customer was buying 22 ammo.

covey ridge · #10 03-11-2018, 11:53 AM

Come to think of it, when a sales person uses the on line site to verify a pal number, there is no need to type in the long pal number as it can be scanned.

hilt134 · #11 03-22-2018, 10:10 AM

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Originally Posted by Jeron Kahyar

Never heard of this. Also what are you swiping this card on? If I recall there is no mag strip nor barcode to scan.

The guy at Cabela's scanned mine when I sold a gun. There a mag strip and a barcode

airbornedeerhunter · #12 03-08-2018, 08:24 PM

I call BS. Most places simply ask to see your PAL, some will enter it into the system to make sure it is still valid but I think this is clickbait. Even if they did record anything you can walk out the door, and hand it someone else with a pal and then poof-it doesn't exist.

Unless you can provide some actual evidence I think it's a little paranoid.