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The Firearms Dealer Portal was launched in August 2020 as part of a phased delivery of digital services for the NSW firearms community.
The portal brings significant and positive changes to the NSW firearms industry, including:
- Replacing costly and cumbersome paper registers and ageing databases with speedier, easier and more accurate online recording of firearm movement.
- Instant dealer to dealer notification of transactions in-progress.
- Single digital record for all firearm transactions, including ammunition and gunpowder sales.
- Dedicated employee login profiles to confirm disposal and acquisition touch points.
- Real-time validation of disposal and acquisition of firearm transactions along with gun powder and ammunition sales.
- Decrease the likelihood of human errors by introducing an automated validation process.
- Improving security of system access and monitoring through dedicated login profiles for dealers and each of their employees.
- Ability to search firearms registrations without having to contact the Firearms Registry.
- Easy onboarding and migration process enabled by Firearms Registry staff.
- Reducing error opportunities due to validation of dealer to dealer licence details, including categories of firearms and preventing incorrect or incomplete transactions from being submitted
- Reducing red tape by streamlining quarterly return requirements with real-time functionalities of firearm sales and purchases.
- Seamless and simple user experience including self-service search capacity of firearm details including registrations negating the need to contact the Firearms Registry.
- Simpler dealer audit process due to real time transactions held by dealer and police.
- Decommissioning of the outdated FirearmsLink platform.
The portal allows NSW firearm dealers to submit transactions online. This includes:
- Disposals
- Acquisitions
- Interstate disposal Transactions (between NSW and other states and territories)
- Interstate Acquisition
- Ammunition Sales and Purchase
- Gun Powder
- Inventory Requests
- Customer Interactions
- Safe Keeping
- Consignment
- Repair
- Witness Transfer
- Search Transactions
- Initiate a Warranty Permit to Acquire (PTA)
The Firearms Registry is committed to making the Firearms Dealer Portal processes faster and more efficient with further changes set to be implemented.
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