Canadian Firearms Program Statistics: 2004-10-30

The following information provides national statistics regarding licensing and registration.  This section is updated on a monthly basis.

Almost 2 million Firearms Licences (POLs and PALs) issued under the current legislation are valid.

1.28 million Possession Only Licences (POLs) issued under the current legislation are valid.

709,000 Possession and Acquisition Licences (PALs) issued under the current legislation are valid.

5,000 Minor's Licences (MLs) issued under current legislation are valid.

110 Firearms Acquisition Certificates (FACs) under the previous legislation are still valid.

1.6 million firearm owners have at least one registration certificate in the Canadian Firearms Information System (CFIS).

Almost 7 million firearms have been registered.

3.4 million CFRO queries have been made by police and other law enforcement officials since December 1, 1998.

Note: Police and law enforcement officials have controlled access to some firearms data via Canadian Firearms Registration On-Line, which contains a subset of the information in the computerized Canadian Firearms Information System. CFRO does not contain data on firearm owners other than basic information such as firearms licence numbers, home addresses etc. For further information on CFRO please click here.

Statistics last updated on: October 30, 2004
These statistics are provided by the Office of the Chief Operating Officer of the Canada Firearms Centre. Some statistics are tabulated weekly and some are tabulated monthly.

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