Indoor private handgun shooting range?

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The firearms act states that a business may operate a range without CFO approval. Only employees can use it though. Set up an in home business and you remove the CFO component. The next issue is your municipal bylaws. Can you operate a business in your home and can you get approval to discharge in the city.
 
shawn said:
Are you saying there is? Post it



Post the law that says they have to

The only legal barrier to this is local bylaws. As long as its private/ for you only.

Shawn
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I wasn't saying that there was a law , I was asking you a genuine question and it has been answered . If I understand correctly local bylaws might prevent you from shooting in your basement but it but there is nowhere in the FA that says you can't.
Wasn't trying to tell you one way or the other , I just thought I'd ask someone who has a much greater knowledge of the FA than I do , such as yourself.
 
serbinator said:
http://www.shootingrangeindustries.com/modular-shooting-solutions/

they built a range out in BC..
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opps, sorry I didn't see your post before I mentioned the site as well! Have you been? They had a nice display at Shot Show and had said they can ship to Canada because they already had a range here. They price of property is so expensive in the GTA I thought this would be a good option. Small footprint, and depending on how advanced a setup you want, you can shoot some pretty high power firearms with some of their traps!
 
it is really interesting specially if this can be set up in a way that allows for indoors pistol ISPC/IDPA , CQB rifle competitions, etc.
 
welding plates on the outer side of the walls right up against the walls make the things stupidly strong place the same plates on the top and long bracing plates along the top insides bracing the roof and the walls will make them like bunkers.
 
It IS possible. The person I took my PAL/RPAL courses through has a personal range. He stated in the class that it's possible(Ontario), but a real pain in the ass.

Steel on the walls.... NOT a good idea...ricochets... Sure theres some sort of compressed fiberboard that's available to use that will absorbed the stray shots AND absorbed some sound.

He said he had to have a whole bunch of signs made up with all the range rules, something about a flagpole with a special flag... I forget it all. Was last year he was talking about it.

But they do exist and they CAN be done.

http://laws-lois.justice.gc.ca/eng/regulations/sor-98-212/FullText.html
 
Savage78 said:
You will never get it approved because one the zoning laws won't allow it and 2 no CFO will approve a gun range in your basement for safety reasons which makes it against the law.
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Are you going to keep posting this BS or are you going to post the law that you think says this.

You are correct zoning laws are an issue, on the other hand the CFO has nothing to do with anything if you want to shoot gun in your basement.

Shawn
 
This has been discussed, at length, many times. It boils down to where you are and how much money you have. The where is about local discharge by-laws. No discharge means no discharge, period. How much money is mostly about back stops and cleaning discharged air. (As in no ventilating contaminated air directly outside.) Both are expensive. Think 6 figures.
Sound is not as important as one might think, but if there are noise by-laws, they apply too.
 
sunray said:
This has been discussed, at length, many times. It boils down to where you are and how much money you have. The where is about local discharge by-laws. No discharge means no discharge, period. How much money is mostly about back stops and cleaning discharged air. (As in no ventilating contaminated air directly outside.) Both are expensive. Think 6 figures.
Sound is not as important as one might think, but if there are noise by-laws, they apply too.
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Can you post some links to the other discussions please?
 
 
sunray said:
....This has been discussed, at length, many times. It boils down to where you are and how much money you have. The where is about local discharge by-laws. No discharge means no discharge, period.....
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^^^This.

Regardless of all the approvals, and CFO clearance, my "semi-rural" neighbourhood is designated a no discharge area....indoors or out.
 
I find it irritating that so many shooters believe that the law says you can only shoot a restricted firearm only at an approved range. I believe many RPAL instructors teach this, so it is understandable, but it is not true. Nothing in the federal Firearms Act says this. People are confusing the conditions of their ATT, which does clearly state that you can only transport your restricted firearm to an approved range, with the idea that it can only be fired at an approved range. The distinction is subtle, but very significant, especially when you are talking about a firing range at your home, making the ATT irrelevant (you aren't transporting the gun).

All of the other arguments apply and have to be considered, as well as common sense safety, but you won't find a clause in the FFA that says you must shoot a restricted or prohibited firearm only at an approved range.
 
EdGCNM said:
I find it irritating that so many shooters believe that the law says you can only shoot a restricted firearm only at an approved range. I believe many RPAL instructors teach this, so it is understandable, but it is not true. Nothing in the federal Firearms Act says this. People are confusing the conditions of their ATT, which does clearly state that you can only transport your restricted firearm to an approved range, with the idea that it can only be fired at an approved range. The distinction is subtle, but very significant, especially when you are talking about a firing range at your home, making the ATT irrelevant (you aren't transporting the gun).

All of the other arguments apply and have to be considered, as well as common sense safety, but you won't find a clause in the FFA that says you must shoot a restricted or prohibited firearm only at an approved range.
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At least one guy read the firearmsact :cheers:

Shawn
 
EdGCNM said:
I find it irritating that so many shooters believe that the law says you can only shoot a restricted firearm only at an approved range. I believe many RPAL instructors teach this, so it is understandable, but it is not true. Nothing in the federal Firearms Act says this. People are confusing the conditions of their ATT, which does clearly state that you can only transport your restricted firearm to an approved range, with the idea that it can only be fired at an approved range. The distinction is subtle, but very significant, especially when you are talking about a firing range at your home, making the ATT irrelevant (you aren't transporting the gun).

All of the other arguments apply and have to be considered, as well as common sense safety, but you won't find a clause in the FFA that says you must shoot a restricted or prohibited firearm only at an approved range.
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Yes, but discharge bylaws, if they exist, apply to your home.
 
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