It’s all very confusing.
I put a PTA, which was my first one, in for my .308 over a month ago, and my .22 over two weeks ago. I paid for both guns and PTA’s outright, from the same dealer. Depending on how one reads the recent Vic FAQ I might get both or no guns cleared.
The .308 PTA cleared on exactly 28 days which was the very same day the ban on sales commenced, and LRD told my dealer that day he could not release that gun to me. So we waited. I emailed LRD with some polite enquiries. A couple of days ago DFO told my dealer to just go ahead and give me the gun, that same day, as I was driving to the gunshop, LRD replied to my questions in a polite way but meaningless way, basically confirming that at present I wouldn’t be able to get either gun. Clear as mud. I picked up the .308. I am hoping that the .22 will clear as well and I can pick that up on the 28th day after I paid for it but who the hell knows?
Personally, I don’t see any big conspiracy here, nor any concerted effort to wind back gun rights or ownership or anything, but then that’s not my thing- I just see this as a small part of the bigger mess amidst what is the government (state and national) scrambling to develop a broad response to the fundamentally changed and changing conditions. I’m annoyed, I’m a little put out, I’m confused, but then so is everyone right now about all myriad of important things, and in the bigger scheme of things my guns don’t matter all that much and I’m prepared to give them the benefit of doubt and try to be patient.
Hopefully with a bit more time they can take stock of all the feedback that is working its way through the system and formulate some better policy. Getting all red and screamy won’t help anyone.
But again, I might be biased, as I got my .308 and a trail cam on my private property is showing Sambar
