Role of the CFIS Team

CFIS - The Canadian Firearm Information System is a fully integrated, automated information system that provides administrative and enforcement support to all partners involved in licencing of firearm owners/users, registration of all firearms, and the issuance of authorizations related to restricted firearms.

CFRO - The Canadian Firearm Registration On-line consists of a subset of the information on CFIS. It is designed to provide a service to the Canadian police agencies that have access to CPIC. The information is available as a read only or query only. The information may be retrieved by authorized individuals of those agencies by licence number, by registration certificate number, by authorization number, by address and/or telephone number.