I have my restricted license, but never bought because of all the regulation.
Now it feels like it's easier, if you want a handgun you just have to go black market like the somalis. Pretty simple. Not that different than it was before.
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I have my restricted license, but never bought because of all the regulation.
Now it feels like it's easier, if you want a handgun you just have to go black market like the somalis. Pretty simple. Not that different than it was before.
I’ve had lots of restricteds in the past. Sold them all a few years ago. Once the novelty wears off they’re more of a liability than theyre worth.
Moving? Better tell the cfo months in advance.
Punch a douche bag and he calls the cops? Expect a knock at you’re door and you’ll be handing them all over.
Yep, I have had my PAL since junior high school. In Alberta we have the option of taking it through our Outdoor Ed class. RPAL was never an option back then, so I never had it. I looked into it many times over the years but I could not find any companies that did just the RPAL. Then I thought about it more, and was party to the insanity of even taking pistols to the range, so it started making even less sense. A very good friend had a nice cabin just across the border in WA where there were some pistols so if we needed to fire off some rounds we just went there. Way less hassle and cheaper ammo.
There is already a huge western pushback in regards to firearms so I would not be surprised to see the provinces do some of their own regulations. Alberta is already leading the charge.
There is no good reason to join a range, unless you just like to meet people, or want to shoot year-round. Shooting outdoors in the country is cheaper and healthier.
In the long term, maybe the handgun ban is good. As gun crime goes up in Canada, the gun control normies will struggle to explain why, and this could Red Pill a few of them.
Or maybe I'm just too optimistic about Canada. I don't know.
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The only time I go to the range is to shoot with with friends who own pistols and follow the law. All other times its just a sand pit down a FSR.
I have been wanting to get back into trap shooting though. I enjoy that a lot.
I heard today that the "exemptions" to the law might be competitive range shooters. So you can own legally if you compete. Somehow I don't think Canada will be pushing out great sport shooters in coming generations. Not sure how that'll all play out with the law, but that's the rumour from a gun guy I know.
Pierre P should be on a soapbox calling this law BS. Haven't checked in on him so maybe he has said something. What a joke.
Pierre P should be on a soapbox calling this law BS. Haven't checked in on him so maybe he has said something. What a joke.
No exemption, thus far anyone that legally owns a handgun can still take it to the range and shoot with it. But this could be the last generation in Canada. Well, legal shooters anyway.
Pierre P is too busy criticizing the "gatekeepers" that prevent us from bringing in 10s of 1000s more 'qualified' immigrants.
While I didn't realize it at the time since I did exactly that in Ab, but in NS if you want to shoot, to only legal ways to do it are: At a club, following all their rules, and a DNR range, following all their rules, or hunting, with a license and blaze orange and weapon appropriate to what you're hunting. If you go out plinking on your own land, you can hypothetically be charged with poaching, and have your weapons and vehicle you used to get there seized.
The ignorance of the people has been a political gold mine for the liberals. People want tougher gun laws, but at the same time are whole sale ignorant of the laws currently on the books. When people retort back saying things like "Why does anyone need an assault rifle?" in response the the ban a couple years ago of scary looking synthetic bolt action .22s, I can hardly be bothered to waste my breath any more explaining that such rifles have been banned for almost 50 years, and if you put two guns in a box, the one which shoots bigger bullets, faster and in shorter succession is the legal one.
I predict that threat to the mother's life clauses for abortion will be expanded to include postpartum psychosis risks, psychological distress, etc. Women being shitty thinkers will be sufficient justification
Danielle Smith is what Cuck Ford should have been (but never was, just a grifter that went full cuck with lockdowns and death-vax - the lockdowns benefitted his family business I hear). Maybe Smith is even better than PP. She still kinda bent the knee on the Russia-Ukraine thing (initally said Ukraine should pursue peace but quickly backtracked after being told its verboten). Maxime is the best out of the bunch though.
She is excellent. Well spoken. Brigitte Belton has more military might in her than the whole of Canada's armed forces. She should be a general.
I'm watching this from a legal perspective, and although her rhetoric is excellent, she ends up looking embittered, emotional, and crazy to the other side. It's not good.
The Emergency Act Commission has a very narrow focus, to determine whether the government was warranted in passing the EA in response to the Convoy.
What Belton has done here is to divert the focus away from the EA's appropriateness and towards other issues, such as whether the mandates were warranted. Ultimately, this isn't relevant to the EA Commission.
Smith made a calculated move with the Ukraine-Russia issue: keep in mind that Alberta is chock full of Ukrainian nationalists who also vote Conservative. And anyway, sending arms to Ukraine is a federal issue, not a provincial one.
It was a cuck move, but ultimately not that bad in the grand scheme of things.
The funny thing about Bernier and the PPC is that they would be considered 'moderates' in any sensible country.
I don't know if anyone is following the nonsense in Ontario with the CUPE union, but I thought this was a good summary:
Yes, did think this was the case as well. However at the same time Smith herself has some Ukrainian roots which in theory should immunize her from criticism she's a russian sympathizer....so if anyone was qualified to speak out for peace and not a proxy war between the US/Russia with Ukraine being the new Syria/cannon fodder - it could have been her. So still think she cucked hard on this one.
Just as an aside: the Fed Gov't lifted restrictions on non-vaxxed employees back around July, which meant that those employees who were not vaxxed (and hadn't moved away, committed suicide or some other reason) were allowed to return. However, the Feds are still conducting audits of employees, i.e. checking to see if employees who originally declared they were vaxxed back in October 2021 were lying or not; punishment for being found to have lied can include dismissal. The union never said boo when it came to canning unvaxxed employees but now they're up in arms about these disciplinary measures. Go figure.
They're also the most miserable slumlords one could think of. There's a family in Vancouver that is notorious for letting their apartment buidlings go to absolute rot (Singh?)