License Application Time Frames

[Welshman]

Province: Gauteng
Station: Benoni
Application Type: Section 16
Firearm: Glock 17
Submitted: 11/03/2025
Payment Received : 13/03/2025 (SMS)
In process at DFO: 01/04/2025
Send to Provincial DFO: 10/04/2025
Send to CFR (AVS): 23/04/2025
Send to Licensing Section: 06/05/2025
Received at Licensing Section (CFR): 08/05/2025
In Preparation for Consideration:
Consideration:
Approved:

(61 Working Days So Far)

[Treeman]

Got a hand full of cards yesterday   
   one rifle already scrapped, one resold and one in use for 3 months already.
WT genuine F ?

[Welshman]

Province: Gauteng
Station: Benoni
Application Type: Section 16
Firearm: Glock 17
Submitted: 11/03/2025
Payment Received : 13/03/2025 (SMS)
In process at DFO: 01/04/2025
Send to Provincial DFO: 10/04/2025
Send to CFR (AVS): 23/04/2025
Send to Licensing Section: 06/05/2025
Received at Licensing Section (CFR): 08/05/2025
In Preparation for Consideration: 27/07/2025
Consideration:
Approved:

(108 Working Days So Far)

[oafpatroll]

My most recent one which was approved early july was 120+ working days and it went backwards and forwards between 'in preparation' and 'for consideration' for a period of at least a month. I get the feeling they are throttling on purpose.

[Bushbuck]

Did you see what those office look like.  Photos from when the Parliament Standing Committee visited the CFR.  My best so far has been three hunting gun renewals when to took exactly  2 weeks till approval and then 2 months for the licenses to arrive.  Worst was almost a year.  Missed 2 hunting season with it - first an refusal and then the wait for the 2nd time around.

[Welshman]

Province: Gauteng
Station: Benoni
Application Type: Section 16
Firearm: Glock 17
Reference No: 101273..
Submitted: 11/03/2025
Payment Received : 13/03/2025 (SMS)
In process at DFO: 01/04/2025
Send to Provincial DFO: 10/04/2025
Send to CFR (AVS): 23/04/2025
Send to Licensing Section: 06/05/2025
Received at Licensing Section (CFR): 08/05/2025
In Preparation for Consideration: 23/07/2025
For Consideration: 31/07/2025
Approved:

104 Working Days So Far

[Welshman]

Province: Gauteng
Station: Benoni
Application Type: Section 16
Firearm: Glock 17
Reference No: 101273..
Submitted: 11/03/2025
Payment Received : 13/03/2025 (SMS)
In process at DFO: 01/04/2025
Send to Provincial DFO: 10/04/2025
Send to CFR (AVS): 23/04/2025
Send to Licensing Section: 06/05/2025
Received at Licensing Section (CFR): 08/05/2025
In Preparation for Consideration: 23/07/2025
For Consideration: 31/07/2025
Approved:

104 Working Days So Far

Province: Gauteng
Station: Benoni
Application Type: Section 16
Firearm: Glock 17
Reference No: 101273..
Submitted: 11/03/2025
Payment Received : 13/03/2025 (SMS)
In process at DFO: 01/04/2025
Send to Provincial DFO: 10/04/2025
Send to CFR (AVS): 23/04/2025
Send to Licensing Section: 06/05/2025
Received at Licensing Section (CFR): 08/05/2025
In Preparation for Consideration: 23/07/2025
For Consideration: 31/07/2025
Approved: 01/08/2025 (SMS Received)

105 Working Days