leadslinger wrote:
Renewing a drivers license takes an hour. Pay the 80$ and get a new picture, vola good for 5 years. Renewing a firearm license takes months and months, a lot of useless paperwork. Cannot just walk up and get it renewed the same day. Sometimes they actually forget or lose the paperwork. Making you into a criminal overnight once it expires. government is great at that.
When you renew in March, and you don't get your license till 2 - 3 weeks After it expired in Aug. That's BS. That's the purpose of this grace period. To make law abiding license people non criminals because government slow process times.
I agree 100%. But the point I was trying to make is, there's no reason for the gov to not send you a reminder that your driver's license is about to expire. They send you yearly reminders letting you know your vehicle registration is about to expire. There are also grave consequences to driving with an expired license. For one your insurance is void. This could cause someone a world of grief and possibly ruin one's life financially in the event of an accident.
The provincial gov knows this and still won't spend a few dollars sending you a reminder. Instead they seem to prefer raking in money from the fines law enforcement collects, as often they're the ones that find out your license has expired. Perhaps my initial post wasn't clear on this, so I hope this clarifies that.
But yeah, this pails in comparison to being made into a criminal should the same happen with a firearms license. Doesn't sound right when they know you've been following all the rules for the first 4 years and then puts you in the same category as someone that committed armed robbery, just because you missed a date. It's like the gov doesn't care whose lives they ruin.