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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.

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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  • Decommissioning of the outdated FirearmsLink platform.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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Contact the Firearms Registry Dealers Unit

dealers@police.nsw.gov.au