The Liberals are projected to win more of Parliament’s 343 seats than the Conservatives, though it wasn’t clear yet if they would win an outright majority, which would allow them to pass legislation without needing help.
Changes to automatic Authorizations to Transport restricted and prohibited firearms were brought into force on July 7, 2021. This change now requires licenced owners of registered firearms to obtain an Authorizations to Transport from the provincial or territorial Chief Firearms Officer (CFO) in order to transport a restricted or prohibited firearm** to any place other than to:**
a. an approved shooting club or shooting range within the owner’s province of residence, or
b. to the firearm’s place of storage after purchase.
You cannot shoot a restricted anywhere other than an approved shooting range.
Non-restricted weapons have very little control in Canada. This is why a lot of people were pissed at the constant addition of more and more guns. Guns that were non-restricted suddenly became prohibited. These kinds of sweeping bans are not good. Hell we could do away with a lot of bans in canada but just keep the licensing scheme. That is working well enough. There is simply no need to ban semi-autos at all.
I was going to do a deep dive into the legislation to figure out WTF I was remembering here, but it’s been kicking around my inbox for a full month now, so I think I have to give up on that.
I don’t think I ever laid eyes on one myself, but I did talk to shooting buddies who bought a restricted and then regretted it. I guess it’s possible they were just exaggerating, but there definitely was something about having to call movements in.
The legislation we have here does make no sense, although that can cut both ways if you want to own something weird. I never got the PAL myself but I’ve thought about getting a specific kind of blackpowder musket that would be banned in the 'states.
You want to know what is even weirder? Since you mentioned blackpowder firearms?
A flintlock musket, even an modern creation of an old design (such as the Brown Bess musket of the American Revolution) there are no regulations at all in Canada. No paperwork, no license, no registration, nothing. Even people with criminal records are not forbidden from owning them. A person with a history of domestic abuse, assault, and armed robbery can still get one legally.
But… flintlock pistols are (now were due to the freeze) treated exactly as modern pistols are. Meaning they need to be registered, locked up with trigger locks and carried in locked cases.
I find that preposterous. Even if flintlock pistols were freely available criminals would not bother using them. In several European countries (such as France) firearms DESIGNED prior to 1880 require no permit to buy or own. This means that cowboy movie lovers who own newly made colt SAA revolvers only need to register their guns but no permit needed to buy or own.
Despite this, there are next to no crimes in France committed with them. I should mention that many companies still make new revolvers of that kind, so it isn’t like they are using 19th century vintage makes.
It is fucking stupid.
And also seeing the liberals (and I voted liberal last election) trying to make bill C2 is only making my blood boil.
Lets be honest, hand guns were pretty much banned before. Nobody wants to call the cops twice every time they go shooting.
No they were not. And you didn’t need to call the cops to go to the shooting range, it is included in the RPAL.
I’m pretty sure if you were moving the gun, you had to call it in.
https://rcmp.ca/en/firearms/firearms-safety-training-transport-and-storage/authorization-transport
Oh, okay. Everyone here just shoots on crown land, so I missed that.
You cannot shoot a restricted anywhere other than an approved shooting range.
Non-restricted weapons have very little control in Canada. This is why a lot of people were pissed at the constant addition of more and more guns. Guns that were non-restricted suddenly became prohibited. These kinds of sweeping bans are not good. Hell we could do away with a lot of bans in canada but just keep the licensing scheme. That is working well enough. There is simply no need to ban semi-autos at all.
I was going to do a deep dive into the legislation to figure out WTF I was remembering here, but it’s been kicking around my inbox for a full month now, so I think I have to give up on that.
I don’t think I ever laid eyes on one myself, but I did talk to shooting buddies who bought a restricted and then regretted it. I guess it’s possible they were just exaggerating, but there definitely was something about having to call movements in.
The legislation we have here does make no sense, although that can cut both ways if you want to own something weird. I never got the PAL myself but I’ve thought about getting a specific kind of blackpowder musket that would be banned in the 'states.
You want to know what is even weirder? Since you mentioned blackpowder firearms?
A flintlock musket, even an modern creation of an old design (such as the Brown Bess musket of the American Revolution) there are no regulations at all in Canada. No paperwork, no license, no registration, nothing. Even people with criminal records are not forbidden from owning them. A person with a history of domestic abuse, assault, and armed robbery can still get one legally.
But… flintlock pistols are (now were due to the freeze) treated exactly as modern pistols are. Meaning they need to be registered, locked up with trigger locks and carried in locked cases.
I find that preposterous. Even if flintlock pistols were freely available criminals would not bother using them. In several European countries (such as France) firearms DESIGNED prior to 1880 require no permit to buy or own. This means that cowboy movie lovers who own newly made colt SAA revolvers only need to register their guns but no permit needed to buy or own.
Despite this, there are next to no crimes in France committed with them. I should mention that many companies still make new revolvers of that kind, so it isn’t like they are using 19th century vintage makes.
It is fucking stupid.
And also seeing the liberals (and I voted liberal last election) trying to make bill C2 is only making my blood boil.